Ann Plato quotes

“A good education is another name for happiness.”
-- Ann Plato

Source : Ann Plato (1988). “Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry”, p.33, Oxford University Press on Demand

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“To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.”
-- Ann Plato

Source : Ann Plato (1988). “Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry”, p.35, Oxford University Press on Demand

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“A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.”
-- Ann Plato

Source : Ann Plato (1988). “Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry”, p.28, Oxford University Press on Demand

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“[Books] may sleep for a while and be neglected; but whenever the desire of information springs up in the human breast, there they are with mild wisdom ready to instruct and please us.”
-- Ann Plato

Source : Ann Plato (1988). “Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry”, p.27, Oxford University Press on Demand

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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.”

“True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.”

“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

“If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.”

“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.”

“But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.”

“I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.”

Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Dec 16, 2011

“If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach...”

Source : Aaron Copland (1959). “The pleasures of music”

“Who has not seen that feeling born of flame Crimson the cheek at mention of a name? The rapturous touch of some divine surpriseFlash deep suffusion of celestial dyes: When hands clasped hands, and lips to lips were pressed, And the heart's secret was at once confessed?”