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Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
The first duty of a lecturer--to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up read more
The first duty of a lecturer--to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
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.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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.
 Grave is the Master's look; his forehead wears
 Thick rows of wrinkles, prints of worrying cares:
  Uneasy read more 
 Grave is the Master's look; his forehead wears
 Thick rows of wrinkles, prints of worrying cares:
  Uneasy lies the heads of all that rule,
   His worst of all whose kingdom is a school.
    Supreme he sits; before the awful frown
     That binds his brows the boldest eye goes down;
      Not more submissive Israel heard and saw
       At Sinai's foot the Giver of the Law. 
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
Knowledge exists to be imparted.
Knowledge exists to be imparted.
 It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative 
expression and knowledge.  
 It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative 
expression and knowledge.