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The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904)
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To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.
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We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.
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We need organizers and builders of a new society, we need warriors for a new way of life. Self government is our most effective educational instrument of producing such organizers, builders, and warriors.
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We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee there's no labouring i' the winter.
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What constitutes the teacher is the passion to make scholars, and again and again it happens that the great scholar has no such passion whatever.
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What they did was sell invisible things. And after they’d sold what they had, they still had it. They sold what everyone needed but often didn’t want. They sold the key to the universe to people who didn’t even know it was locked.
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What's a' your jargon o' your schools,Your Latin names for horns and stools;If honest nature made you fools.
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What's all the noisy jargon of the schools?
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When I am forgotten, as I shall be,And sleep in dull cold marble, * * * *Say, I taught thee.
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Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.
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Whoe'er excels in what we prize,Appears a hero in our eyes;Each girl, when pleased with what is taught,Will have the teacher in her thought. * * * * *A blockhead with melodious voice,In boarding-schools may have his choice.
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Whoever enters the Way without a guide will take a hundred years to travel a two-day journey. The Prophet said "In this way you have no more faithful companion than your works." How can these works and this earning in the way of righteousness be accomplished without a master, O father? Can you practice the meanest profession in the world without a master's guidance? Whoever undertakes a profession without a master becomes the laughingstock of city and town.
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William Cowper, Hope, line 770.
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William Cowper, Truth, line 367.
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William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (c. 1613), Act III, scene 2, line 433.