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“I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.”
― John Keats

“Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. The children in our elementary schools are wearied by the mechanical act of writing, and the interminable intricacies of spelling; they are oppressed by columns of dates, by lists of kings and places, which convey no definite idea to their minds, and have no near relation to their daily wants and occupations; while in our public schools the same unfortunate results are produced by the weary monotony of Latin and Greek grammar. We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children–to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavor to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts. The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. What does it matter if the pupil know a little more or a little less? A boy who leaves school knowing much, but hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten almost all he ever learned; while another who had acquired a thirst for knowledge, even if he had learned little, would soon teach himself more than the first ever knew.”
― John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life

“He could remember all about it now; the pitiful figure he must have cut; the absurd way in which he had gone and done the very thing he had so often agreed with himself in thinking would be the most foolish thing in the world; and had met with exactly the consequences which, in these wise moods, he had always foretold were certain to follow, if he ever did make such a fool of himself.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“أيها القراء المخدوعون إن هدف الصحيفة الأول إيه صحيفة ليست الوطنية ولا للثقافة ولا خدمه الشعب ولا حرية الرأي ولا رفع منار الفضيلة ولا شيء من كل هذه الخزعبلات
أن هدف الصحيفة الأول هو بيع الصحيفة هو المكسب هو أكل العيش فهدفنا الربح.
فإذا كانت الوطنية مربحه فلتحيا الوطنية وإذا كان الهزل والفكاهة أكثر ربحا فلتسقط الوطنية وليحيا الهزل والفكاهة وإذا كان ذكر الفضائح أشد ربحا فلتحيا الفضائح وإذا كانت محاربة الرذيلة وسيلة لانتشار الجريدة فلتحيا الفضيلة وإذا كانت الصورة الفاضحة والسيقان العارية والنهود البارزة وسيلة ربح فلتذهب الفضيلة إلى حيث ألقت.”
― يوسف السباعي, أرض النفاق