“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.
“Idealism is the noble toga that that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
“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.
“America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
“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.
“We learn from history that we do not learn from history.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged philosophy/religion, readings/research
“Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.)
Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.
“To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.”
George Santayana
Winokur, Jon, Editor. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: New American Library, 1987.
“To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.”
George Santayana
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
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