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George P. Brown
(10 Nov 1836 - 1910)
American educator, administrator and publisher whose career began 16 as a teacher, then superintendent of different school systems, commenced publishing an education magazine, spent six years as Indiana State Normal School president (1879-1885) which trained educators. He moved on to editing and publishing the Public School Journal for 25 years, during which he also wrote a variety of books.
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Science Quotes by George P. Brown (1 quote)
The action of the mind in the acquisition of knowledge of any sort is synthetic-analytic; that is, uniting and separating. These are the two sides, or aspects, of the one process. … There is no such thing as a synthetic activity that is not accompanied by the analytic; and there is no analytic activity that is not accompanied by the synthetic. Children cannot be taught to perform these knowing acts. It is the nature of the mind to so act when it acts at all.
— George P. Brown
In The Public-School Journal (Jan 1895), Vol. 14, 281-282.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
