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 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. 
 The twig is so easily bended
 I have banished the rule and the rod:
  I have taught read more 
 The twig is so easily bended
 I have banished the rule and the rod:
  I have taught them the goodness of knowledge,
   They have taught me the goodness of God;
    My heart is the dungeon of darkness,
     When I shut them for breaking a rule;
      My frown is sufficient correction;
       My love is the law of the school. 
 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. 
Teaching is useless unless you can learn from your students.
Teaching is useless unless you can learn from your students.
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.
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.
 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. 
Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
 '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.