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Teaching is useless unless you can learn from your students.
Teaching is useless unless you can learn from your students.
A boy is better unborn than untaught.
A boy is better unborn than untaught.
You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.
You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.
Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.
[Lat., Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam.]
Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.
[Lat., Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam.]
Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
But ask now the beasts, any they shall teach thee; and the fowls
of the air, and they shall read more
But ask now the beasts, any they shall teach thee; and the fowls
of the air, and they shall tell thee:
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes
of the sea shall declare unto thee.
What's a' your jargon o' your schools,
Your Latin names for horns and stools;
If honest nature read more
What's a' your jargon o' your schools,
Your Latin names for horns and stools;
If honest nature made you fools.
Grave is the Master's look; his forehead wears
Thick rows of wrinkles, prints of worrying cares:
Uneasy read more
Grave is the Master's look; his forehead wears
Thick rows of wrinkles, prints of worrying cares:
Uneasy lies the heads of all that rule,
His worst of all whose kingdom is a school.
Supreme he sits; before the awful frown
That binds his brows the boldest eye goes down;
Not more submissive Israel heard and saw
At Sinai's foot the Giver of the Law.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative
expression and knowledge.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative
expression and knowledge.