American Educator Quotes

How did you ever happen to remember that I might be hungry? But of course you would. Will you mind very much if I run myself into serious difficulties now and again after we are married, just for the pleasure of seeing you rise to the occasion?

Elizabeth Marie Pope

How oddly do life and death jostle each other in this strange world of ours! How nearly allied are smiles and tears!

A man must make himself a man, he must enable himself to stand up on two legs, unafraid because he has confidence in his own security and in his own power. There is no place for emotionally or politically cuckolded people in the society I speak of. Survival of the fittest.

Biology is often described as the most recent of the sciences, despite the fact that it was one of the first to be studied.

Herbert William Conn

The appeal of any agreement depends on its terms.

Every one's abilities may be increased or strengthened by a kind of culture.

Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.

Frances Willard

The true test of intelligence is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do

The one question that ought to be asked on a teaching application is: do you love children?

Human government, the embodied effort of man to rule the world without God, ruled over by "the prince of this world," the devil. Its mission is to execute wrath and vengeance here on earth. Human government bears the same relation to hell as the church bears to heaven.

The habit of generalizing from one particular, that mainstay of the cheap and obvious essayist, has rooted many fictions in the public eye. Nothing, for example can blot from my memory the profound, searching, and exhaustive analysis of a great nation which I learned in my small geography when I was a child, namely, 'The French are a gay and polite people fond of dancing and light wines.

Kate Douglas Wiggin

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

Peter Lewis Allen

The student of mathematics should trust no middleman, but go with his own head to original sources, to the masters themselves. Second-hand ideas are as full of bacteria as second-hand books and clothing.

Edgar Odell Lovett

The Cittie of New York is a pleasant, well compacted place, situated on a Commodius river which is a fine harbour for shipping.... I left New-York with no Little regrett...

Sarah Kemble Knight

A person ignorant of Botany, on beholding the profusion of flowers which adorn the face of nature, would discover general resemblances, and form in his mind some order of arrangement; but the Botanist learns to distinguish the least conspicuous parts of a plant as most important in a system of classification.

Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps

Growing up means leaving home and becoming a self supporting adult. I think this the hardest task any human being hast to face.

John Bradshaw (author)

Highly resilient people are flexible, adapt to new circumstances quickly, and thrive in constant change. Most important, they expect to bounce back and feel confident that they will. They have a knack for creating good luck out of circumstances that many others see as bad luck.

What is important is for each individual to order her life so that she becomes a happy, creative person.

Millicent Carey McIntosh

Much depends upon us for the help of our color—more than many are aware. If we are lazy and idle, the enemies of freedom plead it as a cause why we ought not to be free, and say we are better in a state of servitude, and that giving us our liberty would be an injury to us, and by such conduct we strengthen the bands of oppression and keep many in bondage who are more worthy than ourselves.

Richard Allen (bishop)

Of Gertrude Stein:

The supreme egocentric of the most perfect clique of egocentrics.

Louis Althusser puts it this way: because "class instinct is subjective and spontaneous," the class instinct of the middle classes and "thus of intellectuals" must undergo a painful and "revolutionary" transformation in order to become oppositional—that is, in order to become aligned with the methodology of the oppressed.

Whatever I do today is the whole continuum of my experience. Like John Dewey said in his book 'Art as Experience,' you can't separate experience from the work of art. So, if I write for the symphony today, you're listening to everything that's happened to me since I was 18 years old.

The arts are the rain forests of society. They produce the oxygen of freedom, and they are the early warning system when freedom is in danger.

The end and aim of all education is the development of character.

Francis Wayland Parker

We must remake the world. The task is nothing less than that.

Mary McLeod Bethune