“The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty as the son who neglects them”
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“The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty as the son who neglects them”
“You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war”
“You can't teach an old dog new tricks”
“What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print. ”
“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught”
“Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates”
“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher”
“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy”
“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.”
“Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach”
“Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know”
“A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching”
“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. ”
“To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student”
“Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral”
“Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surface”
“It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family”
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea”