And speaking of this wonderful machine:[840] I__ puzzled by the difference between, the kind Which goes on solely in the poet__ mind,A testing of performing words, while he,The other kind, much more decorous, whenHe__ in his study writing with a pen. In method B the hand supports the thought,The abstract battle is concretely fought.The pen stops in mid-air, then swoops to bar[850]_A canceled sunset or restore a star,And thus it physically guides the phraseToward faint daylight through the inky maze. is agony! The brainIs soon enclosed in a steel cap of pain.A muse in overalls directs the drill Which grinds and which no effort of the willCan interrupt, while the automatonIs taking off what he has just put on Or walking briskly to the corner store [860]_To buy the paper he has read before.
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pencils racing across paper, a sound I like." Marisol
It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.
Stop blaming and start being!
Teaching is not a lost art but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
To teach is to learn twice.
The authority of those who profess to teach is often a positive hindrance to those who desire to learn.
A high-school teacher after 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.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Public instruction should be the first object of government.
It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery.
The school teacher is certainly underpaid as a child minder but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.
A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.