“If it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers.”
“If it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers.”
“He listens well who takes notes.”
“The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing”
“Learning is pedantry, wit, impertinence, virtue itself looked like weakness, and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice”
“Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators”
“Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.”
“The true method of knowledge is experiment.”