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I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee,...more

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It facilitates labor and thought so much that there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of meeting the wants of each si...more

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Self-command is the main elegance.

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Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can neve...more

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It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

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The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained ...more

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The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

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The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education but the means of education.

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...the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take an ear of corn when starving, nor a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his ha...more

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When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope t...more

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A world in the hand is worth two in the bush.

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A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.

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Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacl...more

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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance that imitation is suicide that he must take himsel...more

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I pay the School Master but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.