Schoolmaster Quotes

45 quotes by 38 authors

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. — Walter Bagehot
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. — Henry Adams
I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster. — Henry David Thoreau
I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being. — Walter Scott
The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.' — Adoniram Judson
The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the social kneading board. — Edward Alsworth Ross
The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history. — H.G. Wells
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. — Homer
A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster. — Henry George
The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be, is always that… — Errico Malatesta
There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster. — Sarah Josepha Hale
The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep… — Phillis Wheatley
Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage,- a personage less imposing in the… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array. — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive great pleasure from… — Bertrand Russell
Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff — Harold Nicolson
A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival Chen,… — Janice Y. K. Lee
Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease… — Charles Lamb
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

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