Richard Livingstone Quotes

#1. 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

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

Richard Livingstone

#3. I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.

Richard Livingstone

#4. 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

#5. The test of successful education is not the amount of knowledge that pupils take away from school, but their appetite to know and their capacity to learn.

Richard Livingstone

#6. 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

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

Richard Livingstone

#8. 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