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I pay the schoolmaster but 'tis the schoolboys who educate my son.
I pay the schoolmaster but 'tis the schoolboys who educate my son.
Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.
Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.
The languages, especially the dead,
The sciences, and most of all the abstruse,
The arts, at least read more
The languages, especially the dead,
The sciences, and most of all the abstruse,
The arts, at least all such as could be said
To be the most remote from common use,
In all these he was much and deeply read.
Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.
Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something
When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something
You learn something every day if you pay attention.
You learn something every day if you pay attention.
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the
hoofs of a swinish multitude.
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the
hoofs of a swinish multitude.
