Cases Quote by Thomas Merton

“feel that it had not been the most direful mistake in his plan of education. Something must have been wanting within, or time would…

— Jane Austen

“His lack of condemnatory zeal gave him a reputation in the religious hierarchy that ensured he would always remain a humble teacher in a…

— Richard K. Morgan

“His education had been neither scientific nor classical—merely “Modern.” The severities both of abstraction and of high human tradition had passed him by: and…

— C.S. Lewis

“He had, in fact, already begun to sink into that creeping dry rot of pedagogy which is the worst and ultimate pitfall of the…

— James Hilton

He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson

— John Irving

As with all great teachers, his curriculum was an insignificant part of what he communicated. From him you didn't learn a subject, but a…

— William Alexander Percy

“life of service and humility, of silent subordination and religious training, from which he wrested intellectual pleasures congruent with his”

— Thomas Mann

The instructor has to teach history, cosmogony, psychology, ethics, the laws of nations. How can he do it without saying anything favorable or unfavorable…

— Robert Dabney

Not only did he teach by accomplishment, but he taught by the inspiration of a marvelous imagination that refused to accept the permanence of…

— Edwin Howard Armstrong

“...[M]oral instruction, although containing much that is convincing for the reason, ...accomplishes... little... [because] the teachers themselves have not got their own notions clear,…

— Immanuel Kant

Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as…

— Daniel H. Hill

“Class was what formed you, but didn’t travel to other cultures – it became invisible abroad. In foreign places, you were singled out by…

— Amit Chaudhuri