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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.

But ask now the beasts, any they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

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

O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.

'Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean, When both the teacher and the taught are young, As was the case, at least, where I have been; They smile so when one's right; and when one's wrong They smile still more.

Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.

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

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.

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, When I shut them for breaking a rule; My frown is sufficient correction; My love is the law of the school.

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity. . . . No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.

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.

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

A boy is better unborn than untaught.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he: Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd.

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.