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Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.

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

To teach is to learn twice.

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

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be retaught when the students become teachers.

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

My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me .

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

To teach is to learn twice.

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

A high-school teacher, afer all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it.

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.

The first duty of a lecturer--to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantlepiece forever.

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.