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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Diligence is a great teacher.
Diligence is a great teacher.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as read more
I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as my anti-type, my shadow, the voice of distinction I never possessed. I don't think of myself as a teacher so much as an impersonator of profundities, inhabiting the wisdom of texts with the naked confidence that the value of the genius I espouse transcends the particular fraud that I am the one espousing it. And it doesn't even matter to me that no one seems to be listening; those who listen that I don't know about are enough to keep me going--soaring on the wings of borrowed metaphors.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am read more
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.