{"id":2044,"date":"2009-10-29T05:25:49","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T10:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2044"},"modified":"2009-10-29T05:25:49","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T10:25:49","slug":"learned-todaythe-irony-of-henry-adams-the-most-misunderstood-quote-evah-greg-ladens-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/29\/learned-todaythe-irony-of-henry-adams-the-most-misunderstood-quote-evah-greg-ladens-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Learned Today::The Irony of Henry Adams: The most misunderstood quote evah! : Greg Laden&#039;s Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Here is Henry Adam&#8217;s famous quote translated into modern parlance:<br \/>\nBe careful. The system of education is inadequate, and a half baked attempt to educate is dangerous. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell how badly fucked up everything will be when he is done with it&#8230;&#8230;..<br \/>\nI had always seen the quote as what most people seem to see to as: The nice phrase you embroider on the pillow and give to your favorite teacher. My friend Josh Borowicz, who happens to be an historian and a Henry Adams scholar, pointed this interesting irony out to me, several months ago. I vowed at that time to blog about it. And now I have.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/10\/the_most_misused_and_misunders.php?utm_source=selectfeed&amp;utm_medium=rss\">The Irony of Henry Adams: The most misunderstood quote evah! : Greg Laden&#8217;s Blog<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is Henry Adam&#8217;s famous quote translated into modern parlance: Be careful. The system of education is inadequate, and a half baked attempt to educate is dangerous. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell how badly fucked up everything will be when he is done with it&#8230;&#8230;.. I had always seen the quote as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/29\/learned-todaythe-irony-of-henry-adams-the-most-misunderstood-quote-evah-greg-ladens-blog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Learned Today::The Irony of Henry Adams: The most misunderstood quote evah! : Greg Laden&#039;s Blog&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}