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.

You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity. . . . No we
must not. You will learn read more

You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity. . . . No we
must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn
baseball.

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.

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,
read more

'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.

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

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

A boy is better unborn than untaught.

A boy is better unborn than untaught.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to read more

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.