"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."

"A master should be paid liberally, in order to secure a person properly qualified."

"An original thinker and able teacher very soon attracts a large class and vice versa."

"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 fix The generous urpose in the glowing breast."

"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."

"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."

"A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo."

"All jargon of the schools."

"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."

"Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature."

"Adde, quod ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos."

"Better fed than taught."

"Fas est ab hoste doceri."

"Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam."

"Fingit equum tenera docilem cervice magister Ire viam qua monstret eques."

"If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed."

"Grave is the Master's look; his forehead wears Thick 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 frown That binds his brows the boldest eye goes down; Not more submissive Israel heard and saw At Sinai's foot the Giver of the Law."

"Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee."

"A boy is better unborn than untaught."

"Domi habuit unde disceret."

"You cannot teach old dogs new tricks."

"Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind, And, while they captivate, inform the mind."

"The sounding jargon of the schools."

"He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of daily virtuous living."

"When I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, * * * * Say, I taught thee."

"What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools."

"We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee there's no labouring i' the winter."

"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."

"What strikes me most when I remember Paula's teaching is her presence as much as the content of her teachings. I think in this country we have an obsession with content and curriculum, all the while devaluing presence and proximity, which are teaching values hard to describe or quantify (or, indeed, teach). Paula has a tremendous gaze, a tremendous listening power, and the most intelligent curiosity of anyone I have ever met. She took me seriously."

"Teaching is unbounded by the classroom. Just as love is unbounded by time."

"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."

"It is always the teacher who must learn the most … or else nothing real has happened in the exchange."

"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."

"Beautiful indeed and of great importance is the vocation of all those who aid parents in fulfilling their duties and who, as representatives of the human community, undertake the task of education in schools. This vocation demands special qualities of mind and heart, very careful preparation, and continuing readiness to renew and to adapt."

"Education is unfolding the wings of head and heart together. A true teacher pushes the students out of the nest to strengthen the wings."

"Schoolmasters will I keep within my house, Fit to instruct her youth. * * * * * * To cunning men I will be very kind, and liberal To mine own children in good bringing up."

"What's all the noisy jargon of the schools?"

"Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot."

"To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!"

"Each of these private teachers who work for pay ... inculcates nothing else than these opinions of the multitude which they opine when they are assembled and calls this knowledge wisdom."

"I have found that corrections done in a firm and fair manner with an explanation are appreciated, not resented. Always try to turn the encounter into a mutually positive learning experience. These truths are known to every good classroom teacher, every good coach, every good violin teacher, and every good construction foreman. Mistakes that have become deeply rooted habits- in a batter's stance, in a violinist's fingering, in a child's table manners, in a roofer's roofing skills- drive teachers, coaches, foremen, and parents nuts. You have to catch them all early, and properly train the correct actions, skills, and behaviors. Leaders who do not have the guts to immediately correct minor errors or shortcomings cannot be counted on to have the guts to deal with the big things."

"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."

"I do present you with a man of mine, Cunning in music and the mathematics, To instruct her fully in those sciences."

"Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all."

"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches."

"There are two kinds of people in this world: those who, when faced with a window two floors up, will immediately accept the limitations it places upon them; and those who instantly look for a way to subvert both the height and the threatened effects of gravity. This room is full of the latter. It’s one of the reasons I love teaching; the opportunity to find those who would chance a fall in the attempt to fly, rather than stay safely within bounds."

"I verily believe that the kingdom of God advances more on spoken words than it does on essays written and read; on words, that is, in which the present feeling and thought of the teaching mind break into natural and forceful expression."

"Always carry with you into the pulpit a sense of the immense consequences which may depend on your full and faithful presentation of the truth."

"The great bell of Moscow is too large to be hung, the question arises, what was the use of making it? Some preachers are so learned that they cannot make themselves understood, or else cannot bring their minds to preach plain, gospel sermons; here, too, the same question might be asked."