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.
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A boy is better unborn than untaught.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for
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We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for
a madman is not cured by another running mad also.
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In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Knowledge exists to be imparted.
Knowledge exists to be imparted.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths
theater.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths
theater.
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Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be retaught when the students become teachers.
