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“The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.”

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Book:Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

“I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning, for that is sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention; because you have done a great deal when you have brought him to have entertainment from a book. He'll get better books afterwards.”

Firsts Book Done Happens Deals Attention Education Boys Entertainment Get Better

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.”

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Author:Robert M. Hutchins

“... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the intellect should be very much reduced.”

Should Mother Attention Education Childhood Daughter Intellect Motherhood Principal Mother Daughter Stimulation

Book:A Treatise on Domestic Economy: For the Use of Young Ladies at Home, and at School

Source: A Treatise on Domestic Economy: For the Use of Young Ladies at Home, and at School

“I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”

“Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.”

Ifs Wells Persons Matter Done Whole Attention Education Whole Person

Book:What Luther says: an anthology

Source: What Luther says: an anthology

“Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the two most dangerous monsters that you ever meet. Interest and attention will insure to you an education.”

Men Trying Two Opportunity Interest Attention Education Wise Dangerous Habit Men And Women Gains Monsters Indifference Inattention

Author:Robert Andrews Millikan