Schoolmaster Quotes
45 quotes by 38 authors
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
— Walter Bagehot
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No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
— Henry Adams
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I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.
— Henry David Thoreau
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I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.
— Walter Scott
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The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'
— Adoniram Judson
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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
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The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.
— H.G. Wells
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Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
— Homer
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A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.
— Henry George
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff
— Harold Nicolson
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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
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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
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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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