Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. The children in our elementary schools are wearied by the mechanical act of writing, and the interminable intricacies of spelling; they are oppressed by columns of dates, by lists of kings and places, which convey no definite idea to their minds, and have no near relation to their daily wants and occupations; while in our public schools the same unfortunate results are produced by the weary monotony of Latin and Greek grammar. We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children–to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavor 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 be given the wish to learn. 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 almost 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.
John LubbockTag: science books education knowledge learning hate mind memory mistake teaching forget instruction facts worship importance confusion book-learning cultivation dry-facts lessons mental-food pupil strain tastes
Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Al FrankenTag: error education humanity mistakes lessons
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
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Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive.
Mitch AlbomThere are three lessons I would write-
Three words, as with a burning pen,
In tracings of eternal light,
Upon the heart of men.
Have hope! though clouds environ round,
And gladness hides her face in scorn,
Put thou the shadow from thy brow,
No night but hath its morn.
Have love! not love alone for one,
But man as man thy brother call,
And scatter like the circling sun,
Thy charities on all.
Tag: inspirational love poetry hope lessons
Along in Life
As you will go
Remember the Times
When you must say "NO!
Tag: lessons
Mistakes are always mistakes,
Or so I've heard them say...
But if it teaches a lesson,
The mistake will go away.
Tag: lessons
Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Helen KellerWill you walk into my parlour?" said the Spider to the Fly
Mary Botham HowittI tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, "The Gods say..." They will believe if one says, "I had a Vision..." They will believe if one says, "It was told me on a tablet of hidden gold..." But, if one says, "History teaches," then they will not believe.
Sheri S. TepperTag: truth history belief religion lessons prophecies
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