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I care not what subject is taught if only it be taught well. - Thomas Henry Huxley Whetstones are not themselves able to cut, but make iron sharp and capable of cutting. - Isocrates If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed. - Isocrates, Ad Doemonicum, inscribed in golden letter over his school according to Roger Ascham in his "Schoolmaster" You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") To teach is to learn twice. - Joseph Joubert Though one devote himself to many teachers, he must extract the essence, as the bee from the flower. - Kapila Give me four years to teach the children, and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. - Nikolai Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils. - Sir Roger L'Estrange Do not allow your daughters to be taught letters by a man, though he be a St. Paul or St. Francis of Assissium. The saints are in Heaven. - Alfonso Maria de Liguori (saint Alphonsus Liguori} Passionate words or blows from the tutor fill the child's mind with terror and affrightment, which immediately takes it wholly up and leaves no room for other impressions. - John Locke (1) Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any, do by their own. - Martin Luther Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature. - John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie), Euphues--The Anatomy of Wit--Of the Education of Youth It is the duty of a man of honor to teach others the good which he has not been able to do himself because of the malignity of the times, that this good finally can be done by another more loved in heaven. - Niccolo Machiavelli (Macchiavelli) A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart. - Horace Mann Education is our only political safety. - Horace Mann Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day; they are like vases with a narrow neck; you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time. - Jules Michelet Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses. - John Milton He who honestly instructs reverences God. - Mohammed (Mahomet) A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a funnel, but, after having put the lad, like a young horse, on a trot, before him, to observe his paces, and see what he is able to perform, should, according to the extent of his capacity, induce him to taste, to distinguish, and to find out things for himself; sometimes opening the way, at other times leaving it for him to open; and by abating or increasing his own pace, accommodate his precepts to the capacity of his pupil. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the appetites and affection; otherwise you make so many asses laden with books. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Unless a woman has a decided pleasure and facility in teaching, an honest knowledge of everything she professes to impart, a liking for children, and, above all, a strong moral sense of her responsibility towards them, for her to attempt to enroll herself in the scholastic order is absolute profanation. - Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik) To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle. [Lat., Adde, quod ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Epistoloe Ex Ponto (II, 9, 47) It is lawful to be taught by an enemy. [Lat., Fas est ab hoste doceri.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Metamorphoses (IV, 428) What's all the noisy jargon of the schools? - John Pomfret, Reason (l. 57) Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism (pt. III, l. 15) Displaying page 3 of 4 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4
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