Quotes by Virginia Gildersleeve

About Virginia Gildersleeve:

Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve was an American academic, the long-time Dean of Barnard College, and the sole female US delegate to the April 1945 San Francisco United Nations Conference on International Organization, which negotiated the UN Charter and created the United Nations.
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I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.

Virginia Gildersleeve

The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce.

Virginia Gildersleeve

Author Bio

  • NameVirginia Gildersleeve
  • DescriptionAmerican academic
  • BornOctober 3, 1877
  • DiedJuly 7, 1965
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • AwardsLegion Of Honour