John Lubbock Quotes About Education
-
Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.
→ -
Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.
→ -
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
→ -
Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. ... We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children-to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavour to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts.
→ -
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should have the opportunity of teaching itself. What does it matter if the pupil know a little more or a little less? A boy who leaves school knowing much, but hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten all he ever learned; while another who had acquired a thirst for knowledge, even if he had learned little, would soon teach himself more than the first ever knew.
→ -
Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
→ -
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
→
Related Authors
-
Erma Bombeck Column Author -
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Science writer -
Joseph Dalton Hooker Botanist -
Albert Einstein Theoretical Physicist -
Alfred Russel Wallace Naturalist -
Gregor Mendel Scientist -
Charles Darwin Naturalist -
James A. Baldwin Novelist -
Paul Broca Physician -
Ernst Haeckel Philosopher -
Isaac Newton Physicist -
Edward Burnett Tylor Anthropologist -
William Congreve Playwright -
Thomas Huxley Biologist -
Charles Lyell Lawyer -
Louis Pasteur Chemist -
Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury Hereditary peer -
-
Francis Darwin Botany scientist -
Jens Peter Jacobsen Novelist