Education Quote by John Cotton Dana Download Open image “The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.” — John Cotton Dana ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education Firsts Happiness Happiness Public Library Next Public education Public Happiness Public library Writer
“That the public library is a part of the educational system should never be lost sight of in the work of establishing it, or… — John Cotton Dana Copy Share Image
Public libraries are our great teachers and storytellers, and are a vital adjunct to our schools. In this day of standardized and homogenized education,… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
Public libraries were a huge source of comfort and joy for me when I was growing up. I still spend time there. — Hong Chau Copy Share Image
Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging. — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives. — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents and children… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I'm really excited about public libraries that are redefining themselves as free learning centers. — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In recent years, libraries have taken on an increasingly… — Jodi Rell Copy Share Image
The library should be a commonplace to every one. To use it should be as natural when one needs news or knowledge, fiction or… — John Cotton Dana Copy Share Image
Of hobbies there are many, many, kinds. For example, money-making. But money-making is not exactly a hobby, for it will scarcely carry a boy… — John Cotton Dana Copy Share Image
To use it should be as natural ... as to use the trolley when one needs transportation. — John Cotton Dana Copy Share Image
“That the public library is a part of the educational system should never be lost sight of in the work of establishing it, or… — John Cotton Dana Copy Share Image
“His is one of those cases which are more numerous than those suppose who have never lived anywhere but in their own homes, and… — John Cotton Dana Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
“In school you are taught to obey and not to think straight for your own good. Otherwise the world would be full of millionaires… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share Image
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
