Seumas MacManus quotes

“The young donÂ’t know what age is, and the old forget what youth was.”
-- Seumas MacManus

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“He is as good as his word - and his word is no good.”
-- Seumas MacManus

Source : Seumas MacManus (1950). “Heavy Hangs the Golden Grain”

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“Many a man's tongue broke his nose.”
-- Seumas MacManus

Source : Seumas MacManus (1950). “Heavy Hangs the Golden Grain”

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“The young don’t know what age is, and the old forget what youth was.”
-- Seumas MacManus

Source : Seumas MacManus (1950). “Heavy Hangs the Golden Grain”

#Education Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Age Quotes

“Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.”

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

“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 am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.”

“As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.”

“If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our otherwise weak efforts... remember, you cannot give away that which you do not possess. Study the life of the master. You do not have to have a college degree to be an efficient teacher. But you do have to become acquainted with the life and teachings of the master to be an effective teacher in the church.”

“Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.”

“Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.”

“In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.”

“By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.