An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
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Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature.
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Literary Men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.
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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
We cultivate literature on a little oat-meal.
We cultivate literature on a little oat-meal.
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