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Richard Livingstone Quotes: I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.
         

I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.


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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.

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.



Our danger is not too few, but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives.

Our danger is not too few, but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives.



Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.

Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.



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.

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.



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

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



The test of successful education is not the amount of knowledge that pupils take away from school, but their appetite to know and their capacity to learn.

The test of successful education is not the amount of knowledge that pupils take away from school, but their appetite to know and their capacity to learn.



Our danger is not too few but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives.

Our danger is not too few but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives.





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