Billy Higgins Quotes

Museums are good things, places to look and absorb and learn.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture?

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions.

The more efficient causes of progress seem to consist of a good education during youth whilst the brain is impressible, and of a high standard of excellence, inculcated by the ablest and best men, embodied in the laws, customs and traditions of the nation, and enforced by public opinion.

My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

The arts are a major life nourishment.

It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby.

Museums, I love museums.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.

Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you.

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

The main hope of a state lies in the proper education of its youth.

[Commenting on football:] To see some of our best-educated boys spending the afternoon knocking each other down, while thousands cheer them on, hardly gives a picture of a peace-loving nation.

A city cannot survive if it does not educate its young.

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

The classics should be set in students’ minds so that they become the genes of Chinese national culture.

The V&A is an amazing museum, and the collections have always been a great inspiration to me.