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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university read more
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
 Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and 
mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.  
 Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and 
mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. 
 'Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue
 By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean,
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 'Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue
 By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean,
  When both the teacher and the taught are young,
   As was the case, at least, where I have been;
    They smile so when one's right; and when one's wrong
     They smile still more. 
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.
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.
 There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same 
state or principle in which you are; read more 
 There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same 
state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; 
he is you, and you are he; there is a teaching; and by no 
unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the 
benefit. 
Knowledge exists to be imparted.
Knowledge exists to be imparted.