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A man's scholarship may be perfect, his character admirable, and yet, for want of the power to control subordinates and govern boys, he may be wholly unfit for a schoolmaster.
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Sir R. Matins, V.-C, Hayman v. Governors of Rugby School (1874), L. R. 18 Eq. Ca. 85.
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An original thinker and able teacher very soon attracts a large class and vice versa.
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Lord Watson, Caird v. Sime (1887), 57 L. J. P. C. 9.
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Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage, a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.
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Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, speech (Jan. 28, 1828).
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A master should be paid liberally, in order to secure a person properly qualified.
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Sir John Romilly, Att.-Gen. v. Warden, &c. of Louth School (1852), 14 Beav. 206.