Category Archives: Quotes

As every second post on this site is a quote. You’ll find a deep and broad variety of quotes under this category, which overlap with several other tags and categories. Many of the quotes are larded with links for deeper reading on the subject of the quote, or connections between the subject of the quotes and other people, things, or ideas. See the Taxonomies page for more about this category.

Ambrose Bierce, Presciently, on School Privatization

Posted on December 5, 2016 | Leave a comment

“Corporation n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.”

Ambrose Bierce

Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.

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Rotten Reviews: On Charles Dickens

Posted on November 29, 2016 | Leave a comment

“We do not believe in the permanence of his reputation…. Fifty years hence, most of his allusions will be harder to understand than the allusions in The Dunciad, and our children will wonder what their ancestors could have meant by putting Mr. Dickens at the head of the novelists of his day.”

Saturday Review, 1858

Excerpted from: Bernard, Andre, and Bill Henderson, eds. Pushcart’s Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1998.

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Derek Bok on Paying a Price

Posted on November 28, 2016 | Leave a comment

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

Derek Bok, Universities and the Future of America (1990)

Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.

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Rotten Reviews: Alice in Wonderland

Posted on November 22, 2016 | Leave a comment

“We fancy that any real child might be more puzzled that enchanted by this stiff, overwrought story.”

Children’s Books

Excerpted from: Bernard, Andre, and Bill Henderson, eds. Pushcart’s Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1998.

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Georges Clemenceau on the Rise and Fall of American Civilization

Posted on November 21, 2016 | Leave a comment

“America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.”

Georges Clemenceau

Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.

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An Epigram for Our Time From Jean Piaget

Posted on November 14, 2016 | Leave a comment

“The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done—men who are creative, inventive, and discoverers.”

Jean Piaget (1896-1680)

Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.

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James Joyce on History

Posted on November 7, 2016 | Leave a comment

“History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awaken.”

James Joyce

Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.

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Understanding Our Task as Teachers

Posted on October 31, 2016 | Leave a comment

“Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.”

John Dewey (1859-1952)

Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.

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An Epigram for Teaching Literature

Posted on October 24, 2016 | Leave a comment

“Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one’s immediate circle.”

Jean Rostand

Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.

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Beyond Education as Training to Take Tests

Posted on October 17, 2016 | Leave a comment

“Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it.”

Hannah Arendt, Teaching as Leading

Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.

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