I shall always be most grateful to him. He made me rediscover that I had a mind. It had lain fallow, I am afraid , since my Mount Holyoke days. Author: Frances Perkins Year: 1908 Year evidence: Description of Professor Simon Nelson Patten , one of her teachers at the Wharton School , where she attended evening classes in economics and sociology in 1908. Source: Quotes / Madame Secretary: Frances Perkins (1970) — Description of Professor Simon Nelson Patten , one of her teachers at the Wharton School , where she attended evening classes in economics and sociology in 1908. Source links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Patten https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wharton_School_of_the_University_of_Pennsylvania Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Frances+Perkins&oldid=3867485 Attribution: Wikiquote contributors, Frances Perkins; history: https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Frances%20Perkins&action=history License: Wikiquote contributor text: CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/; underlying quotations may have separate copyright and be included under fair use. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Copyrights ID: +QMWazn99uXK5QFNE4lriwi4LXpLb5we+CyqBMNK184=