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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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Lord Russell on Education

Posted on August 16, 2016 | Leave a comment

“Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.”

Bertrand Russell

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

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Stoicism Simplified

Posted on August 14, 2016 | Leave a comment

“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.

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George Santayana on Critical Thinking

Posted on July 4, 2016 | Leave a comment

“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.

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The Joys of Critical Thinking

Posted on June 9, 2016 | Leave a comment

“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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Why We Read

Posted on June 9, 2016 | Leave a comment

“Employ your time by improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored so hard for.”

Socrates (469-399 B.C.)

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

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Doing Great Work

Posted on June 9, 2016 | Leave a comment

“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”

John Ruskin (1819-1900)

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

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