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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.
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.
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.
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.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university read more
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
A boy is better unborn than untaught.
A boy is better unborn than untaught.
Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be retaught when the students become read more
Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be retaught when the students become teachers.
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.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
