A boy is better unborn than untaught.

A boy is better unborn than untaught.

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.

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

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.

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.

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same
state or principle in which you are; read more

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same
state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place;
he is you, and you are he; there is a teaching; and by no
unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the
benefit.

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.

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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.