Education Quote by Willa Cather Download Open image ““Schools are not meant to make boys happy, Cécile, but to teach them to do without happiness.”” — Willa Cather ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cécile Teach Education Happiness Happy Cécile Make Boys Schools Meant Teach Happiness
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“But, in reality, being unhappy might also teach him something about happiness.” — François Lelord Copy Share Image
“For this cause also children cannot be happy, for they are not old enough to be capable of noble acts; when children are spoken… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“There are some persons whom we can never make happy. It is not in them to be so.” — E.D.E.N. Southworth Copy Share Image
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“Don't feel bad if your youth cannot be joyful, but at least make it useful.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“in those days nobody talked about being happy, like they do now – nobody minded whether children were happy, the really important thing was… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“I only knew the schoolbooks said he "died in the wilderness, of a broken heart." "More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly,… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Have the last word ma'm," he said cheerfully. "It's a lady's privilege.” — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Money and office and success are the consolations of impotence. Fortune turns kind to such solid people and lets them suck their bone in… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“You remember how homesick I used to get, and what long talks we used to have coming from school? We've someway always felt alike… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“He placed this book in my grandmother's hands, looked at her entreatingly, and said, with an earnestness which I shall never forget, "Te-e-ach, te-e-ach… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know. — Willa Cather 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
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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
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“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
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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