Sir Richard Winn Livingstone (23 January 1880 – 26 December 1960) was a British classical scholar, educationist, and academic administrator. He promoted the classical liberal arts.
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 live his life well.
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.
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 what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.
One is apt to think of moral failure as due to weakness of character: more often it is due to an inadequate ideal.
Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.
I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.
Our danger is not too few, but too many options. . . to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives.
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 storing. But they sleep in the memory and awake in later years, illuminated by life and illuminating it.
Ian Cohen
W. Brett Wilson
Ignacio Ellacuria
Richard Brookhiser
Abe Burrows
Murphy J. Foster, Jr.
Tom Kaulitz
Matsuo Basho
Sid Fleischman
Charles Dudley Warner
Mike Portnoy
Lee Ann Womack