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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar
No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar
If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and read more
If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.
Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good read more
Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
 The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor 
its great scholars great men.  
 The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor 
its great scholars great men. 
 And with unwearied fingers drawing out
 The lines of life, from living knowledge hid.  
 And with unwearied fingers drawing out
 The lines of life, from living knowledge hid. 
It is important that students bring a certain rafamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship read more
It is important that students bring a certain rafamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it
 Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school-fees are 
heavy.  
 Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school-fees are 
heavy. 
Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe read more
Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something read more
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.