Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2017-03-26 Mar 24, 2017The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank.~ Charles Darwin“Painters and poets,” you say, “have always had an equal license in bold invention.” We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.~ HoraceThose in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and principal educators of their children and that their right is completely inalienable.~ Pope John Paul II Mar 23, 2017Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.~ Germaine GreerIt is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.~ David HumeIt should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.~ John Adams Mar 22, 2017The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.~ Daniel WebsterTruth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.~ Emily DickinsonHistory does not exist for us until and unless we dig it up, interpret it, and put it together. Then the past comes alive, or, more accurately, it is revealed for what it has always been - a part of the present.~ Frederick W. Turner III 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print