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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

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“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”

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Adams emphasizes that teaching can shape later judgments and lives in ways the teacher cannot fully trace or control once students carry ideas beyond the classroom.

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The Education of Henry Adams, chapter on teaching at Harvard, Project Gutenberg #2044. Adams follows the sentence by stressing the moral and philosophical difficulty of teaching history; it is a reflective claim about educational influence, not a measurable promise of permanent impact.

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