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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.

Richard Livingstone
Heart, School, Doubt
Richard Livingstone (2013). “On Education”, p.101, Cambridge University Press

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

Richard Livingstone
Decision, Alternatives, Danger

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
Children, School, Ideas
Richard Livingstone (2013). “On Education”, p.29, Cambridge University Press

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

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

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
Memories, Sleep, Years
Richard Livingstone (2013). “On Education”, p.101, Cambridge University Press

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
Education, Growing Up, Creative

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
Character, Thinking, Weakness
Richard Livingstone (2013). “On Education”, p.153, Cambridge University Press

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
Use, Vocation, Wells

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