DURANT ON EDUCATION Education: A progressive discovery of our own ignorance. By Will Durant, American historian
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MEMORY OR IMAGINATION Education: The development of memory at the expense of imagination. By Owen Johnson
BUILDING OUR YOUTH You cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. By Franklin D. Roosevelt
SPEED- THINKING NEEDED What's the point in taking speed- reading courses if they don't teach you how to speed-think?
SPILT MILK RESPONSE Instead of crying over spilt milk, go milk another cow.
DINNERS FOR TWO Doctor to overweight patient: "You'll have to give up those intimate little dinners for two unless you have another person with you."
UNIVERSAL STUPIDITY There are two things on earth that are universal, hydrogen and stupidity.
CHRIST OF THE HARBOR Sanctify Christ in your heart! There is a story about one of the harbors in Sicily. It was described as being very smooth and calm. In fact, it is said, "when…
ONE LINE OF POETRY "If only one line in the poem has energy, then cut the rest out and leave only that one line." William Carlos Williams
CENTIPEDE FOOTBALL The story is told about a football game between the big animals and the little animals. At the start of the second half the big animals were ahead and gave Tiger the ball.…
TORAH AND HONEY In Judaism there is an old tradition that when a young boy first begins to study, the very first time, after he reads his first word in the Torah, he is given…
DEAL WITH THE SOURCE Two farmers were fascinated by a booth where little celluloid balls bobbed on top of water jets. Customers were offered substantial prizes if they succeeded in shooting any one of the…
MOCKINGBIRD GOSPEL One morning a woman was helping her five-year-old neighbor identify the different songbirds making frequent stops at her feeder. A mockingbird chirped nearby. Trying to teach the little boy about the characteristics of…
HOUSE WITHOUT BEDS An Air Force Chaplain was transferred to a new base and was given the opportunity to choose between two houses. After inspecting the first one, their four-year-old daughter announced that she didn't…
ATM WINNINGS My six-year-old daughter wanted to help when I stopped at our local bank's automated teller machine, so I let her push the proper buttons. When the money came out in the tray, she…
BAD GRADES Two teenagers are talking as they were coming out of their high school building on the way home from school. The first asked, "Would your parents be mad if you were to flunk…
Attitude | Burden | Dependence | Directions | Gender | Humor | Lost | Men | Prejudice | Stubbornness
MEN MUST ASK Do you know why the people of Israel wandered in the wilderness for 40 years? Because, even back then, men wouldn't stop and ask for directions.
ELVIS LIVES An advertisement for a new set of records entitled, "Songs You Wished He'd Sung." Now you can hear songs like Moon River, Auld Lang Syne, We've Only Just Begun, The Star Spangled Banner,…
WRONG FIRST LADY A student teacher was discussing a newspaper article about the President with her class. Since the article referred to the "First Lady," she wondered if anyone in the class knew who she…
SIDEWAYS GRAVITY After moving into a new home with his family, my grandson, four, was surprised to see the kitchen door -- equipped with self-closing hinges -- shut all by itself. "Dad," he quizzed his…
