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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.
Author:
Source: None
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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.
Author: Bible
Source: Job (ch. XII, v. 7-8)
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What's a' your jargon o' your schools,
Your Latin names for horns and stools;
If honest nature made you fools.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: Epistle to J.L. -----k
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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.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto II, st. 1)
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'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.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto II, st. 164)
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Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow
destruction.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: "In Mathematical Circles" by H. Eves
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He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of
virtuous living.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Essays--Schiller
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You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.
Author: Joseph Chamberlain
Source: at Greenock
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Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind.
And, while they captivate, inform the mind.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Hope (l. 770)
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The sounding jargon of the schools.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Truth (l. 367)
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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.
Author: Charles M. Dickinson
Source: The Children
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Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
Author: Charles M. Dickinson
Source: The Children
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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative
expression and knowledge.
Author: Charles M. Dickinson
Source: The Children
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You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity. . . . No we
must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn
baseball.
Author: Charles M. Dickinson
Source: The Children
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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.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Essays--Of Spiritual Laws
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Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and
mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Author: James Anthony Froude
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Education
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A boy is better unborn than untaught.
Author: James Anthony Froude
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Education
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths
theater.
Author: James Anthony Froude
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Education
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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.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Deserted Village (l. 201)
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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.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Source: The School Boy
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Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.
[Lat., Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Carmina (IV, 4, 33)
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The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive
neck, whichever way the rider indicates.
[Lat., Fingit equum tenera docilem cervice magister
Ire viam qua monstret eques.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Epistles (bk. I, 2, 64)
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If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.
Author: Isocrates
Source: Ad Doemonicum, inscribed in golden letter over his school according to Roger Ascham in his "Schoolma
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To teach is to learn twice.
Author: Isocrates
Source: Ad Doemonicum, inscribed in golden letter over his school according to Roger Ascham in his "Schoolma
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Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue
and lytterature.
- John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie),
Author: John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie)
Source: Euphues--The Anatomy of Wit--Of the Education of Youth
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Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be retaught when the students become teachers.
Author: G. C. Lichtenberg
Source: None
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: None
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My mother would say it is literally ghost writers
who come to me
(Tan is the author of what became The Joy Luck Club).
Author: Amy Tan
Source: None
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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: None
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Knowledge exists to be imparted.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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To teach is to learn twice.
Author: Joseph Joubert
Source: None
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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
Author: Elbert Hubbard
Source: None
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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Author: Jacques Barzun
Source: None
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A high-school teacher, afer all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it.
Author: Emile Capouya
Source: None
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Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: None
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The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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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 between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
Author: Virginia Woolf
Source: None
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To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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