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Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind.
And, while they captivate, inform the mind.
Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind.
And, while they captivate, inform the mind.
Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.
Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.
If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.
If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.
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 twig is so easily bended
I have banished the rule and the rod:
I have taught read more
The twig is so easily bended
I have banished the rule and the rod:
I have taught them the goodness of knowledge,
They have taught me the goodness of God;
My heart is the dungeon of darkness,
When I shut them for breaking a rule;
My frown is sufficient correction;
My love is the law of the school.
The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.
[Lat., Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam.]
Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.
[Lat., Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam.]
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths
theater.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths
theater.
My mother would say it is literally ghost writers
who come to me
(Tan is the author of what became read more
My mother would say it is literally ghost writers
who come to me
(Tan is the author of what became The Joy Luck Club).
