Education Quote by Mort W. Lumsden Download Open image ““Those who can't, and can't teach, translate. (attrib: F.L. Vanderson)”” — Mort W. Lumsden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education Translation Translators Writers Writing
“The topics which language limits us to aren’t much worth discussing in the first place. (attrib: F.L. Vanderson)” — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
“Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; those who can't teach, teach the teachers; and those who can't teach the teachers go into… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; those who can't teach, police grammar on the Internet.” — Ruadhán J. McElroy Copy Share Image
“We found many difficulties to combat, for it is not an easy thing to go into France and learn to talk French well; but… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
“You are stranded in a culture where you can’t trust many, you don’t fully understand the language, and you can’t read the signs—and at… — Kim De Blecourt Copy Share Image
“Those who can, do; those who can do better than those who just do, teach.” — Paul Harris Copy Share Image
“If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. One who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.” — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
“All I require of a translator is that he or she be a more gifted writer than I am, and in at least two… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Our troubles begin the moment our teachers believe they know it all, and our learners think they are not teachable.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“If there’s someone who doesn’t understand what I’m teaching, I try to understand who they are. A” — Lisa Delpit Copy Share Image
“Don't most astrophysicists now predict some "end of the line" - an end to it all? Not just the death of things, but the… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
“FV: Hasn't all art, in a way, submitted to words - reduced itself to the literary...admitted its failure through all the catalogues and criticism,… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
“Don't you find it odd that two of the foremost symptoms of insanity are the hearing voices and talking to oneself? Is it any… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
“There's actually a sort of comfort in the belief that things can only get worse. It gives one an appreciation for the here-and-now, knowing… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
“We know there are colours in the spectrum untranslatable to our eyes; sounds beyond the range of our hearing; sensations beyond the tolerance of… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
“The topics which language limits us to aren’t much worth discussing in the first place. (attrib: F.L. Vanderson)” — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
“Isn't one of the first lessons of good elocution that there's nothing one can say in any rambling, sprawling rant that can't, through some… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
“The problem with living forever, of course, is you have to live forever before you know you're immortal...or invincible. Even the gods, in this… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
“FV: Annandale defines 'definition' as "an explanation of the signification of a term." Yet Oxford, on the other hand, defines it as "a statement… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
“Anything you try to quantify can be divided into any number of "anythings," or become the thing - the unit - itself. And what… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
“In school you are taught to obey and not to think straight for your own good. Otherwise the world would be full of millionaires… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share Image
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
