The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with…

Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage,- a personage less imposing in…

— Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child…

— Hugo Chavez

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The average schoolmaster is, and always must be, an ass.

— H. L. Mencken

A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.

— Henry George

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

— Henry Adams

“The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of…

— Charles Dickens

I had a schoolmaster who was a supernumerary at Glyndebourne Opera, and through ,I got a job as a walk-on in Peter Hall's production…

— Richard McCabe

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

— Thomas Paine

Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.

— Antiphanes

One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.”

— Anonymous

Society is like a schoolmaster who estimates boys according to their conformity to a standard that is easiest for running a school.

— Henry Sidgwick

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

— Thomas Carlyle

The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child…

— George Bernard Shaw