What's a' your jargon o' your schools,
Your Latin names for horns and stools;
If honest nature read more

What's a' your jargon o' your schools,
Your Latin names for horns and stools;
If honest nature made you fools.

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.]

If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.

If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing read more

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

Teaching is useless unless you can learn from your students.

Teaching is useless unless you can learn from your students.

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.

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.