Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2018-12-12 Dec 12, 2018To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his children as his conscience directs, to save for their prosperity after his death --- these are wishes deeply ingrained in civilised man. Their realization is almost as necessary to our virtues as to our happiness. From their total frustration disastrous results both moral and psychological might follow.~ C. S. LewisGovernment schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents....~ John Taylor GattoOne can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.~ Leonardo da Vinci Dec 11, 2018Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.~ Lord ActonNo use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.~ John HoltThe desire to know is natural to good men.~ Leonardo da Vinci Dec 10, 2018The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.~ A. A. MilneThe trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.~ Bertrand RussellA teacher is never a giver of truth -- he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself. A good teacher is merely a catalyst.~ Bruce Lee Dec 7, 2018Intellectual freedom is the right of every individual to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction. It provides for free access of all expressions of ideas through which any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored.~ American Library AssociationWhat's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system.~ Bertrand RussellExample is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.~ Edmund Burke Dec 6, 2018The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad. If it injures the character it is vicious. If it injures the conscience it is criminal.~ Henri Frederic AmielTo educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.~ Theodore RooseveltA nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.~ Benjamin Franklin Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print