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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.
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.
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.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
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.
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.
The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive
neck, whichever way the rider indicates.
[Lat., read more
The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive
neck, whichever way the rider indicates.
[Lat., Fingit equum tenera docilem cervice magister
Ire viam qua monstret eques.]
Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
A high-school teacher, afer all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what read more
A high-school teacher, afer all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it.
