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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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Antisthenes.
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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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Robert Burns, Epistle to J. L.——k.
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He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of daily virtuous living.
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Thomas Carlyle, Essays, Schiller.
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You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.
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Quoted by Jos. Chamberlain, at Greenock (Oct., 1903).
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Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind,And, while they captivate, inform the mind.
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William Cowper, Hope, line 770.
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The sounding jargon of the schools.
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William Cowper, Truth, line 367.
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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, Where I shut them for breaking a rule;My frown is sufficient correction; My love is the law of the school.
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Charles M. Dickinson, The Children.
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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.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Of Spiritual Laws.
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Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
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James Anthony Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects, Education.
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A boy is better unborn than untaught.
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Gascoigne.
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Grave is the Master's look; his forehead wearsThick rows of wrinkles, prints of worrying cares:Uneasy lies the heads of all that rule,His worst of all whose kingdom is a school.Supreme he sits; before the awful frownThat binds his brows the boldest eye goes down;Not more submissive Israel heard and sawAt Sinai's foot the Giver of the Law.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The School Boy.
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Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam.
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Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.
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Horace, Carmina, IV. 4. 33.
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Fingit equum tenera docilem cervice magisterIre viam qua monstret eques.
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The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.
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Horace, Epistles, Book I. 2. 64. ("Quam" for "qua in some texts).
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If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.
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Isocrates, Ad Dæmoni****. Inscribed in golden letters over his school, according to Roger Ascham, in his Schoolmaster.
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Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.
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Job, XII. 8.
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Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.
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John Lyly, Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit, Of the Education of Youth.
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Adde, quod ingenuas didicisse fideliter artesEmollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos.
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To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.
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Ovid, Epistolæ Ex Ponto, II. 9. 47.
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Fas est ab hoste doceri.
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It is lawful to be taught by an enemy.
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Ovid, Metamorphoses, IV. 428.
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All jargon of the schools.
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Matthew Prior, An Ode on Exodus III. 14. "I am that I am".
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I am not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead—ahead of myself as well as of you.
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Bernard Shaw, Getting Married.
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A little bench of heedless bishops here,And there a chancellor in embryo.
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William Shenstone, The School Mistress, Stanza 28.
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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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Jonathan Swift, Cadenus and Vanessa, line 733.
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Better fed than taught.
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John Taylor, Jack a Lent.
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Domi habuit unde disceret.
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He need not go away from home for instruction.
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Terence, Adelphi, III. 3. 60.
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Delightful task! to rear the tender Thought,To teach the young Idea how to shoot,To pour the fresh Instruction o'er the Mind,To breathe the enlivening Spirit, and to fixThe generous urpose in the glowing breast.
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James Thomson, The Seasons, Spring (1728), line 1,150.