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 Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow 
destruction.  
 Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow 
destruction. 
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.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
 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.
 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. 
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing read more
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
 '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.