Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.

Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.

Teaching is useless unless you can learn from your students.

Teaching is useless unless you can learn from your students.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of
virtuous living.

He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of
virtuous living.

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for
a madman is not cured by another running read more

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for
a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.
[Lat., Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam.]

Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.
[Lat., Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam.]

But ask now the beasts, any they shall teach thee; and the fowls
of the air, and they shall read more

But ask now the beasts, any they shall teach thee; and the fowls
of the air, and they shall tell thee:
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes
of the sea shall declare unto thee.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.