Education Quotes by Sydney J. Harris

11 Education quotes by Sydney J. Harris

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Harris writes with a journalist’s clarity, turning education into a topic worth pondering. His eleven observations balance critique with hope.

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Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

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The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.

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Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?

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The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

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Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are…

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At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student's…

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Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot…

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“Experience can be a very bad teacher, indeed, or not teacher at all. It is like the silly phrase, “Practice makes perfect.”…

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A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which…

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“The most worthwhile form of education is the kind that puts the educator inside you, as it were, so that the appetite…

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This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical)…

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Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify.

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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

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The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.

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Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.

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“...it calls for deciding things on their own merit, not because you read it or were told it or grew up believing it.”

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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

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Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their…

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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.

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Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most…

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Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.

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“The cynic is goodhearted beneath his facade, whereas the sentimentalist is flint-hearted beneath his.”

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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

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“Like all persecuted minority groups, they strike back by forming cabals, by “taking over” certain spheres of activity (in the arts, for instance), and…

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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

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