Ambeth R. Ocampo famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.
-- Ambeth R. Ocampo

#School #Numbers #Taught
School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.
-- Ambeth R. Ocampo

#Reading #School #Literacy
Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are always changing. This is what makes history exciting - that we can always find something new in what is old.
-- Ambeth R. Ocampo

#Looks #Way #Facts
It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home.
-- Ambeth R. Ocampo

#Home #Ironic #Philippines
A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.
-- Ambeth R. Ocampo

#Viewpoints #Lasts #Source
Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen.
-- Ambeth R. Ocampo

#Pay #Sometimes
Filipinos are not a reading people, and despite the compulsory course on the life and works of Rizal today, from the elementary to the university levels, it is accepted that the 'Noli me Tangere' and 'El Filibusterismo' are highly regarded but seldom read (if not totally ignored). Therefore one asks, how can unread novels exert any influence?
-- Ambeth R. Ocampo

#Reading #People #Levels
Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.
-- Ambeth R. Ocampo

#Ideas #Shots #Wrong Time
I guess if you go around with famous people you are assured of some reflected (or deflected) glory.
-- Ambeth R. Ocampo

#People #Glory #Assured

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom.
The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.
With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself as it goes along, though freedom remains total with each step: any tempting side road can be turned into an impulse, or any wild patch of woods can be explored. The pattern of the walk is to come true, is to be recognized, discovered.
Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.
There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, "Right there, nothing can go wrong. Everything has to go right." One place is the turbulent passage south of Cape Horn. Another is the dead center of the Indian Ocean.
A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...
Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But the next quite logical step after the reals, namely the introduction of infinitesimals, has simply been omitted. I think, in coming centuries it will be considered a great oddity in the history of mathematics that the first exact theory of infinitesimals was developed 300 years after the invention of the differential calculus.
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

Ambeth R. Ocampo famous quotes

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