We know that the gifts which men have do not come from the schools. If a man is a plain, literal, factual man, you can make a great deal more of him in his own line by education than without education, just as you can make a great deal more of a potato if you cultivate it than if you do not; but no cultivation in this world will ever make an apple out of a potato.


Royal Truths (ed. 1866)

Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

We know that the gifts which men have do not come from the schools. If a man is a plain, literal, factual man, you can make a great deal more of him...

We know that the gifts which men have do not come from the schools. If a man is a plain, literal, factual man, you can make a great deal more of him...

We know that the gifts which men have do not come from the schools. If a man is a plain, literal, factual man, you can make a great deal more of him...

We know that the gifts which men have do not come from the schools. If a man is a plain, literal, factual man, you can make a great deal more of him...