All Richard Livingstone Quotes
- 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… Acquired
- One is apt to think of moral failure as due to weakness of character: more often it is due to an inadequate ideal. Apt
- 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… Beetle
- I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart. Doubt
- 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… Acquire
- Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education. Achievement
- Our danger is not too few, but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives. Alternatives