Sir Richard Winn Livingstone (1880–1960) was a British classical scholar, educationist, and academic administrator. He promoted the classical liberal arts. Livingstone was the son of an Anglican vicar; his mother was the daughter of an Irish baron. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford. He remained at Oxford University until 1924 as fellow, tutor, and librarian at Corpus Christi College. In 1920, he served on the Prime Minister’s committee on the classics. During 1920–22, he was co-editor of the Classical Review.
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The young, whether they know it or not, live on borrowed property.
—Richard Livingstone
Topics: Youth
There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.
—Richard Livingstone
Topics: Education
The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technician knows everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and his place in the scheme of things.
—Richard Livingstone
Topics: Technology
Our danger is not too few, but too many options … to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives.
—Richard Livingstone
Topics: Decisions
I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.
—Richard Livingstone
Topics: Literature
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