Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.” ~ Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) Pulitzer prize-winning historian (1919), great-grandson of John Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams, and son of US Secretary of State, Charles AdamsSource: The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography, 1918