"The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings"
"The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the 19th century."
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Source: Alfred Marshall (1977). “Principles of Economics: An Introductory Volume”
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