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The sounding jargon of the schools.
The sounding jargon of the schools.
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.
Knowledge exists to be imparted.
Knowledge exists to be imparted.
Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue
and lytterature.
- John read more
Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue
and lytterature.
- John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie),
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.]
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.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
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.
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.
