“ A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ”
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“ A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ”
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“ A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ”
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“ Philosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. ”
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“ The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture her attitude towards lifetook form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the first time, the stagescenery of the senses collapsed; the human mind felt itself stripped naked, vibrating in a void of shapeless energies, with resistless mass, colliding, crushing, wasting, and destroying what these same energies had created and labored from eternity to perfect. ”
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“ The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand. ”
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“ The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression. ”
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“ Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights. ”
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“ The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. ”
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“ The habit of looking at life as a social relation — an affair of society — did no good. It cultivated a weakness which needed no cultivation. If it had helped to make men of the world, or give the manners and instincts of any profession — such as temper, patience, courtesy, or a faculty of profiting by the social defects of opponents — it would have been education better worth having than mathematics or languages; but so far as it helped to make anything, it helped only to make the college standard permanent through life. ”
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“ The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. ”
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“ The habit of looking at life as a social relation — an affair of society — did no good. It cultivated a weakness which needed no cultivation. If it had helped to make men of the world, or give the manners and instincts of any profession — such as temper, patience, courtesy, or a faculty of profiting by the social defects of opponents — it would have been education better worth having than mathematics or languages; but so far as it helped to make anything, it helped only to make the college standard permanent through life. ”
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“ Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. - Henry Adams. ”
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“ From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics, and economy; but a boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame. ”
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“ We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and, when got, the repose is insupportable. ”
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“ There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. ”
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“ We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and, when got, the repose is insupportable. ”
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“ The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled. ”
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“ Safeguards are often irksome, but sometimes convenient, and if one needs them at all, one is apt to need them badly. ”
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“ Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. - Henry Adams. ”
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“ We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and, when got, the repose is insupportable. ”
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“ No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money. ”
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