Richard Livingstone Quotes & Sayings

Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education. — Richard Livingstone

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

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

I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart. — Richard Livingstone

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

Our danger is not too few, but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives. — Richard Livingstone

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

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

There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics. — Richard Livingstone