Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2017-03-21 Mar 21, 2017I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.~ Carl RogersThis is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable, is an intrinsic part of human existence -- but that if one does not shy away, but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships, one masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious.~ Bruno BettelheimPolitical history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction.~ W. H. Auden Mar 20, 2017Political correctness is simply tyranny with manners.~ Charlton HestonFor the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.~ Sir Arthur EddingtonThe next time somebody in the media denies that there is media bias, ask how they explain the fact that there are at least a hundred stories about the shrinking arctic ice cap for every one about the expanding antarctic ice cap, which has now grown to record size.~ Thomas Sowell Mar 17, 2017Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.~ Robert M. HutchinsTo educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.~ Theodore RooseveltMuch of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.~ Thomas Sowell Mar 16, 2017A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who’d rather write a good story.~ Jim BishopLiberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge; I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers.~ John AdamsAmerica is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine Providence in behalf of the human race.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Mar 15, 2017If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.~ Carl Friedrich GaussFreedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.~ David SarnoffA Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.~ H. L. Mencken Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print