Jacob Bronowski on Scholarly Work and Virtue

“By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous.”

Jacob Bronowski in a lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1953)

Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.

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