If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.

- Richard Livingstone

There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of wha…

- Richard Livingstone

There are few greater treasures to be acquired in youth than great poetry-and prose-stored in the memory. At the time one may resent the labor of sto…

- Richard Livingstone

Everyone has a vocation by which he earns his living, but he also has a vocation in an older sense of the word-the vocation to use his powers and liv…

- Richard Livingstone

I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.

- Richard Livingstone

Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.

- Richard Livingstone

Our danger is not too few, but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives.

- Richard Livingstone

One is apt to think of moral failure as due to weakness of character: more often it is due to an inadequate ideal.

- Richard Livingstone