Great Throughts Treasury

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Vernon Carter

The teaching of any science, for purposes of liberal education, without linking it with social progress and teaching its social significance, is a crime against the student mind. It is like teaching a child how to pronounce words but now what they mean.

Crime | Education | Mind | Progress | Science | Wisdom | Words | Child |

Clarence Darrow, fully Clarence Seward Darrow

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

Children | Doubt | Tragedy | Wisdom | Think |

Merimom Cunninggim

The teaching profession is the only profession that has no definition for malpractice.

Wisdom |

Anatole France, pen name of Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Art | Awakening | Curiosity | Mind | Purpose | Purpose | Wisdom | Art |

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is most thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else.

Language | Learning | Study | Wisdom | Teacher |

Gail Godwin, fully Gail Kathleen Godwin

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre.

Good | Wisdom |

Harry Golden, born Herschel Goldhirsch

The school is a place or institution for teaching and learning. Underneath this definition in every standard dictionary is another definition: School is a large number of fish of the same kind swimming together in the same direction.

Learning | Wisdom |

Jean Guéhenno, given name Marcel-Jules-Marie Guéhenno

To teach people to read without teaching them not to believe everything they read is only to prepare them for a new slavery.

People | Slavery | Teach | Wisdom |

Moses Harvey

Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only as far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit.

Dignity | Earth | Man | Reverence | Science | Spirit | Truth | Wisdom |

Alexander Maclaren

Do not let the loud utterances of your own wills anticipate, nor drown, the still, small voice in which God speaks. Bridle impatience till He does. If you cannot hear His whisper, wait till you do. Take care of running before you are sent. Keep your wills in equipoise till God’s hand gives the impulse and direction.

Care | God | Impatience | Impulse | Wills | Wisdom | God |

Bob Talbert

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.

Wisdom |

Benjamin Ricketson Tucker

Civilization consists in teaching men to govern themselves.

Civilization | Men | Wisdom | Govern |

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

He produces not only our choice, but also the very freedom that is in our chance... In order to understand that God creates our free will in us, we must understand only that He wills us to be free. But He will not only that we should be free in power, but that we should be free in its exercise.

Chance | Choice | Free will | Freedom | God | Order | Power | Will | Wills | God | Understand |