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Oprah on Diversity and Achievement

Posted on March 13, 2017 | Leave a comment

“Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954-)

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

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Faith and Skepticism

Posted on March 6, 2017 | Leave a comment

“I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.”

Wilson Mizner

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

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Bernard Baruch’s Axiom on Facts and Opinions

Posted on February 27, 2017 | Leave a comment

“Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.”

Bernard Baruch Baruch: My Own Story (1996)

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

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Schopenhauer on Genius

Posted on February 13, 2017 | Leave a comment

“Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.”

Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)

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

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Arnold Toynbee on Current Events

Posted on January 30, 2017 | Leave a comment

“Today our knowledge of the past is increasing at an unprecedented rate, and this at both ends of its ever- lengthening vista. The archaeologists are making history by exhuming buried and forgotten civilizations as fast as the politicians are making it by taking new action for contemporary historians to study.”

Arnold J. Toynbee (1889-1975) As quoted in The Teacher and the Taught (1963)

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

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Wise Words from Aldous Huxley in a Political Season

Posted on December 19, 2016 | Leave a comment

“Idealism is the noble toga that that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.”

Aldous Huxley

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

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Will Durant on Why Teaching Will Never Become Boring

Posted on December 16, 2016 | Leave a comment

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

Will Durant (1885-1981)

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

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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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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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Wise Words from Hegel in a Season of Demagoguery

Posted on October 10, 2016 | Leave a comment

“We learn from history that we do not learn from history.”

Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel

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

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