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Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are read more
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind.
And, while they captivate, inform the mind.
Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind.
And, while they captivate, inform the mind.
A boy is better unborn than untaught.
A boy is better unborn than untaught.
Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
The sounding jargon of the schools.
The sounding jargon of the schools.
Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow
destruction.
Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow
destruction.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations,
Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain,
I pray read more
O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations,
Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain,
I pray ye flog them upon all occasions,
It mends their morals, never mind the pain.
