[T]he paramount end of liberal study is the development of … - Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

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[T]he paramount end of liberal study is the development of the student’s mind, and... knowledge is principally useful as a mean of determining the faculties to that exercise, through which this development is accomplished... the main duty of a Professor to consist not simply in communicating information, but in doing this in such a manner... that the information he conveys may be the occasion of awakening his pupils to a vigorous and varied exertion of their faculties.

Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

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Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet (8 March 1788 – 6 May 1856) was a Scottish metaphysician.

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Birth Name: William Hamilton

Alternative Names: Sir William Stirling Hamilton of Preston, 9th Bt. • Sir William Hamilton

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[U]niversities... have gradually allowed to fall into disuse the powerful means which they possess of rousing the pupil to exertion, and have been too often content to act as mere oral instruments of information...

Be sober, and to doubt prepense,
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