A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W XYZ
Leslie Alexander Lacy
History did not begin when you became conscious.
Lacydes
[When asked late in life why he was studying geometry] If I should not be learning now, when should I be?
Jess Lair
Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.
Ann Landers
It isn’t what a teenager knows that worries his parents. It’s how he found out.
Wanda Landowska (Polish musician 1879 – 1959)The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. Oh the joy of discovery!
Lao-tzu
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Doug Larson
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
Tommy Lasorda
In baseball and in business, there are three types of people. There are those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happened.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
Vernon Law
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
When you’re through learning, you’re through.
D.H. Lawrence
My soul is my great asset and my great misfortune.
Elizabeth Lawrence
There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.
Timothy Leary
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they’ve got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
Fran Lebowitz.
Children make the most desirable opponents in Scrabble, as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something and the feeling will pass.
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you there is no such thing as algebra.
Harper Lee
As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.
(To Kill a Mockingbird 1960)
I want you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
Robert E. Lee
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
Ursula LeGuin
If you see a whole thing – it seems that it’s always beautiful. Planets, lives…. But close up a world’s all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life’s a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
I doubt the imagination can be suppressed. It you truly eradicated it in a child, that child would grow up to be an eggplant.
Madeleine L’Engle
That’s the way things become clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they’ve been all along.
All children are artists, and it is an indictment of our culture that so many of them lose their creativity, their unfettered imaginations, as they grow older.
Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.
John Lennon British songwriter, musician
The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being’s mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it’s too hard.
George B. Leonard (Writer: Education and Ecstasy (1968)
Schools and colleges have until now (to recap briefly) served a society that needed reliable, predictable human components. Appropriately enough, they spent overwhelming amounts of time and energy ironing out those human impulses and capabilities which seemed errant. Since learning involves behavioral change, lifelong learning was the most errant of behaviors and was not to be countenanced. Educational institutions, therefore, were geared to stop learning. Perhaps half of all learning ability was squelched in the earliest elementary grades, where children found out that there exist predetermined and unyielding “right answers” for everything, that following instructions is what really counts and, most surprisingly, that the whole business of education is mostly dull and painful.
Eda J. Leshan
We are not asking our children to do their own best but to be the best. Education is in danger of becoming a religion based on fear; its doctrine is to compete. The majority of our children are being led to believe that they are doomed to failure in a world which has room only for those at the top.
Doris Lessing (b.1919)
. . . that is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.
Sam Levenson
Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn’t poor.
We may not always see eye to eye, but we can try to see heart to heart.
C. S. Lewis
The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-for-nothing humorous old men, who have been electing their own successors ever since the world began and who intend to go on with it. They’ll squeeze under the Revolution or leap over it when the time comes, don’t you worry.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth . . .
The basic principle of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be “undemocratic.” These differences between the pupils – for they are obviously and nakedly individual differences – must be disguised. This can be done on various levels. At universities, examinations must be framed so that nearly all the students get good marks. Entrance examinations must be framed so that all, or nearly all, citizens can go to universities, whether they have any power (or wish) to profit by higher education or not. At schools, the children who are too stupid or lazy to learn languages and mathematics and elementary science can be set to doing the things that children used to do in their spare time. Let them, for example, make mud pies and call it modeling. But all the time there must be no faintest hint that they are inferior to the children who are at work. Whatever nonsense they are engaged in must have – I believe the English already use the phrase – “parity of esteem.” An even more drastic scheme is not impossible. Children who are fit to proceed to a higher class may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma – Beelzebub, what a useful word! – by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval’s attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. — C.S. Lewis, from “Screwtape Proposes a Toast,” 1959
Sinclair Lewis
Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure, and very dead.
Thomas Lickona
Children need limits with independence, roots, and wings.
Sara Lightfoot (Professor of Education Harvard University)
Good schools support individual teachers in their personal idiosyncratic expression. They allow them, as one principal puts it, to ‘disturb the inertia.’ These wonderful people are rewarded for being wonderful rather than being denigrated for being wonderful . . . .
Sarah Lawrence Lightfoot (American teacher)I don’t think there’s any way you could be in this business and not have an optimistic spirit.
Learning is at its best when it is deadly serious and very playful at the same time.
Abraham Lincoln
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
Everybody likes a compliment.
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
I will get ready, and then perhaps my chance will come.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Robert Lindner (Psychoanalyst )
Our schools have become vast factories for the manufacture of robots. We no longer send our young to them primarily to be taught and given the tools of thought, no longer primarily to be informed and acquire knowledge; but to be “socialized” — which in the current semantic means to be regimented and made to conform.
Andrew Linzey
Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within us an ever-increasing sense of the worth of creation. It is about how we can develop and deepen our intuitive sense of beauty and creativity.
Arthur Lismer (Canadian Artist)If it moves, we can educate it. If it is alive, we can keep it moving.
John Locke (1632 – 1704)
Virtue . . it is the hard and valuable Part to be aim’d at in Education.
Those children who have been most chastised seldom make the best men.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
I’ve always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
Bette Bao Lord
Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;
Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.
James A. Lovell
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen..
James Russell Lowell
The better part of every man’s education is that which he gives himself.
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
John Lubbock (English writer 1834 – 1913) The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.
George Lucas (American Filmmaker)
Teachers are the most important individuals in our society – nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.
Clare Boothe Luce
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
Jeffrey Lukens teacher
Education is about helping others understand how valuable they are to the functioning of the whole. I approach every one of my students with the thought, “How are you smart?” rather than “How smart are you?”
Charles Luckman
Success is that old ABC- ability, breaks, and courage.
David Lussier teacher
I started off wanting to be a great teacher of history. But now that I’ve matured, I would rather be respected as a great teacher of students.
Martin Luther
The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty of its public buildings; but it consists in the number of its cultivated citizens, in its men of education, enlightenment and character.
Even if tomorrow I knew the world would go to pieces I would still plant my apple tree.
Rosa Luxemburg
We will be victorious if we have not forgotten how to learn.
Robert Lynd
The days on which one has been most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest.