Begets Quote by Horace Mann Download Open image “Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students.” — Horace Mann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Begets Emulation Praise Seeds Students
When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn. — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible about time,… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
We need to make sure our students are exerting themselves. We need to praise them when they deserve it and to tell them honestly… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
We conceive of immortality as having a beginning, but no end; but we conceive of eternity as having neither beginning nor end. Hence it… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Cognitive and character skills work together as dynamic complements; they are inseparable. Skills beget skills. More motivated children learn more. Those who are more… — James Heckman Copy Share Image
Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
War destroys. War obliterates. War is ruination. And war begets more war. After thousands of years of experience proving this, and reams of literature… — Lisa Simeone Copy Share Image
Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children. — Enoch Copy Share Image
The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how both beget… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful. — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death. — Horace Copy Share Image
They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer to this… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image