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We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. - Antisthenes Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. - Jacques Barzun 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. - Bible, Job (ch. XII, v. 7-8) Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature. - Luther Burbank What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools. - Robert Burns, Epistle to J.L. -----k 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. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto II, st. 1) 'Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean, When both the teacher and the taught are young, As was the case, at least, where I have been; They smile so when one's right; and when one's wrong They smile still more. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto II, st. 164) Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction. - Thomas Carlyle, "In Mathematical Circles" by H. Eves He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living. - Thomas Carlyle, Essays--Schiller You cannot teach old dogs new tricks. - Joseph Chamberlain, at Greenock Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind. And, while they captivate, inform the mind. - William Cowper, Hope (l. 770) The sounding jargon of the schools. - William Cowper, Truth (l. 367) 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. - Charles Monroe Dickinson, The Children Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig. - Paul Dickson Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach. - Albert Einstein It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity. . . . No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball. - Albert Einstein 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. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays--Of Spiritual Laws Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. - James Anthony Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects--Education A boy is better unborn than untaught. - George Gascoigne Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he: Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd. - Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (l. 201) I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs. - Don Herold 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. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The School Boy Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind. [Lat., Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Carmina (IV, 4, 33) Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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