The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.

Wolverhampton department store
James Beattie (1914—1988) chairman and managing director of James Beattie plc department store chain
James Beattie (footballer) (born 1978) English footballer
Jim Beattie (born 1954) baseball player
Jim Beattie (musician) Scottish rock musician.