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“The great difficulty in education is that we give rules instead of inspiring sentiments. ... it is not possible to make rules enough to apply to all manner of cases; and if it were possible, a child would soon forget them. But if you inspire him with right feelings, they will govern his actions.”

Ifs Giving Children Enough Feelings Action Forget Education Cases Inspire Difficulty Sentiments

Author:Lydia M. Child

“The age was still dark and reeked of the havoc and misfortunes of the Goths who had put all good literature to destruction. But, by God's goodness, in my time light and dignity were returned to letters, and I see there such improvement that today I would have great difficulty being admitted to the most elementary classes--I, who in my time was reputed to be (and not wrongly) to be the most knowledgeable person of the century.”

“I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.”

“In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.”

Has Beens Done Church Education Greater Difficulty Regard Legislature Clergymen

Author:John Strachan

“An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.”

Inspirational Funny Science Brain Education Empty Difficulty Emptiness Rubbish True Believer Empty Heads

Author:Eric Hoffer

“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.”

Ideas Education Difficulty

Book:Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana

Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana

“The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.”

Trying Education Teach Teacher Difficulty Being True Multitudes Untrue Unfaithful

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.”

Mind Has Beens Ideas Lying Fear Education Atheism Difficulty Corners Rage New Ideas Escaping

Book:General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money

Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money

“It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.”

“Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.”

Matter Science Speak Common Education Audience Hard Work Degrees Doctors Difficulty Medicine Bounds Medical Common Sense Ratios Inverse

Book:Aequanimitas

Source: Aequanimitas