David McCullough Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• The more Adams thought about the future of his country, the more convinced he became that it rested on education. Before any great things are accomplished, he wrote to a correspondent, a memorable change must be made in the system of education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher. The education of a nation instead of being confined to a few schools and universities for the instruction of the few, must become the national care and expense for the formation of the many.

  David McCullough

  Country, Memorable, School

  David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough Library E-book Box Set: 1776, Brave Companions, The Great Bridge, John Adams, The Johnstown Flood, Mornings on Horseback, Path Between the Seas, Truman, The Course of Human Events”, p.1000, Simon and Schuster

• We all know the old expression, "I'll work my thoughts out on paper." There's something about the pen that focuses the brain in a way that nothing else does. That is why we must have more writing in the schools, more writing in all subjects, not just in English classes.

  David McCullough

  Writing, School, Expression

  Source: www.neh.gov

• We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for all of life is our public library system.

  David McCullough

  School, Thinking, Library

• If we think back through our own lives, the subjects that you liked best in school almost certainly were taught by the teachers you liked best. And the teacher you liked best was the teacher who cared about the subject she taught.

  David McCullough

  Teacher, School, Thinking

  Source: www.neh.gov

• Little children can learn anything, just as they can learn a foreign language. The mind is so absorbent then. There ought to be a real program to educate teachers who want to teach grade school children about history.

  David McCullough

  Teacher, Children, Real

  Source: www.neh.gov

• I am adamant that we must not cut back on funding of the teaching of the arts in the schools: music, painting, theater, dance, all of it. The great thing about the arts is that the only way you learn how to do it is by doing it.

  David McCullough

  Art, Teaching, School

  Source: www.neh.gov

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