Richard Livingstone quotes

“Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.”
-- Richard Livingstone

Source : Richard Livingstone (2013). “On Education”, p.41, Cambridge University Press

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“I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.”
-- Richard Livingstone

Source : Richard Livingstone (2013). “On Education”, p.101, Cambridge University Press

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“There are few greater treasures to be acquired in youth than great poetry-and prose-stored in the memory. At the time one may resent the labor of storing. But they sleep in the memory and awake in later years, illuminated by life and illuminating it.”
-- Richard Livingstone

Source : Richard Livingstone (2013). “On Education”, p.101, Cambridge University Press

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“One is apt to think of moral failure as due to weakness of character: more often it is due to an inadequate ideal.”
-- Richard Livingstone

Source : Richard Livingstone (2013). “On Education”, p.153, Cambridge University Press

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“There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.”
-- Richard Livingstone

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“If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.”
-- Richard Livingstone

Source : Richard Livingstone (2013). “On Education”, p.29, Cambridge University Press

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“Our danger is not too few, but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives.”
-- Richard Livingstone

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“Everyone has a vocation by which he earns his living, but he also has a vocation in an older sense of the word-the vocation to use his powers and live his life well.”
-- Richard Livingstone

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“A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.”

“Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.”

“Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.”

Source : Abraham Flexner (1994). “Universities: American, English, German”, p.302, Transaction Publishers

“Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.”

“It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.”

“I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.”

“Achievement has no color”

“It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.”

Source : Adam Haslett (2002). “You are Not a Stranger Here”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

“Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.”

“Most people aren't unsuccessful in life because they don't know what to do. They are unsuccessful because they don't DO what they know how to do. Knowledge is power IF...you use it.”