“Inestimably valuable is training, influence, education, in right directions—training one’s self-approbation to elevate its ideals.”
- Source
- What Is Man?
- Date
- 1906
- Attribution
- Source identified
- Voice / speaker
- Dialogue speaker · Old Man
What does this quote mean?
Even while denying independent self-origination, the Old Man treats training and education as powerful because repeated influences can redirect standards, conduct, and aspiration.
Where does it come from?
What Is Man?, discussion of a timid man learning courage; the sentence belongs to the Old Man’s argument for the formative power of training and influence.
Who voices the line?
Dialogue speaker · Old Man. What Is Man?, discussion of a timid man learning courage; the sentence belongs to the Old Man’s argument for the formative power of training and influence. v4.93 stores the local voice separately from the bibliographic work author.
The source author and the local speaker can be different, especially in fiction, drama, dialogue and poetry.
How should this attribution be read?
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