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Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.
Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
The twig is so easily bended
I have banished the rule and the rod:
I have taught read more
The twig is so easily bended
I have banished the rule and the rod:
I have taught them the goodness of knowledge,
They have taught me the goodness of God;
My heart is the dungeon of darkness,
When I shut them for breaking a rule;
My frown is sufficient correction;
My love is the law of the school.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to read more
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
My mother would say it is literally ghost writers
who come to me
(Tan is the author of what became read more
My mother would say it is literally ghost writers
who come to me
(Tan is the author of what became The Joy Luck Club).
A boy is better unborn than untaught.
A boy is better unborn than untaught.
Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and
mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and
mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for
a madman is not cured by another running read more
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for
a madman is not cured by another running mad also.
The first duty of a lecturer--to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up read more
The first duty of a lecturer--to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantlepiece forever.