William Penn Quotes

Let me recite what history teaches. History teaches.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it's not true.

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.

I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

While the association and its founders and its founders most sincerely appreciate the splendid elements and achievements of the old-time Indian culture and the methods by which early conditions were met, it realizes most keenly the inefficacy of these methods in meeting the conditions of modern times.

The great wisdom of the world comes from the very old.

History is my biggest teacher.

Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others.

Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.

I wouldn't know all that I do about history, if I spent my time watching cartoons and other TV shows.

Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

I'm not a fan of technology . I'm a fan of pedagogy, of understanding how people learn and the most effective learning methods. But technology enables some exciting changes.

I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.

One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

What but education has advanced us beyond the condition of our indigenous neighbors? And what chains them to their present state of barbarism and wretchedness but a bigoted veneration for the supposed superlative wisdom of their fathers and the preposterous idea that they are to look backward for better things and not forward, longing, as it should seem, to return to the days of eating acorns and roots rather than indulge in the degeneracies of civilization?

A lot of people believe that you don't need to know the history and that creates newness. I disagree: we should always be informed and then destroy it.

No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called history. Yet most of our schools and colleges today pay little attention to history. And many of our current policies repeat mistakes that were made, time and again, in the past with disastrous results.

When failure is not an option, we can forget about creativity, learning, and innovation.

Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.