William Osler Quote

What, after all, is education but a subtle, slowly-affected change, due to the action upon us of the Externals; of the written record of the great minds of all ages, of the beautiful and harmonious surroundings of nature and of art, and of the lives, good or ill, of our fellows — these alone educate us, these alone mould the developing minds.

Aequanimitas, with Other Addresses to Medical Students, Nurses, and - Practitioners of Medicine - The Leaven of Science (p. 95), The Blakiston Company. 1932