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John Lubbock Quotes about Education

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Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

John Lubbock
Education, Teacher, Nature
"The Use of Life" by John Lubbock, (Ch. IV), 1894.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

John Lubbock
Education, Teacher, Appreciation
John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of the Life”

Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. ... We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children-to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavour to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts.

John Lubbock
Education, Memories, Children

Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.

John Lubbock
Education, Reading, Teaching

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should have the opportunity of teaching itself. What does it matter if the pupil know a little more or a little less? A boy who leaves school knowing much, but hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten all he ever learned; while another who had acquired a thirst for knowledge, even if he had learned little, would soon teach himself more than the first ever knew.

John Lubbock
Education, Children, Hate

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

John Lubbock
Wise, Education, Men
John Lubbock (1896). “The Pleasures of Life”

Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.

John Lubbock
Education, Learning, School

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