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Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be retaught when the students become read more
Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be retaught when the students become teachers.
The sounding jargon of the schools.
The sounding jargon of the schools.
What\'s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much read more
What\'s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning read more
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse,
For Tories own no argument but force;
With read more
The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse,
For Tories own no argument but force;
With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent,
For Whigs allow no force but argument.
The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.
The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.
Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.
[Lat., Doctrina est ingenii naturale quoddam pabulum.]
Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.
[Lat., Doctrina est ingenii naturale quoddam pabulum.]
A boy is better unborn than untaught.
A boy is better unborn than untaught.
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of read more
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
