“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.”
Gail Godwin (1937) Novelist, short story writer
Source: Natural History (2003), Chapter 3 “Uluru” (p. 45)
“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.”
Gail Godwin (1937) Novelist, short story writer
“Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.”
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools
Source: Literature and Dogma (1873), Ch. 1
Simon Stevin (1548–1620) Flemish scientist, mathematician and military engineer
Disme: the Art of Tenths, Or, Decimall Arithmetike (1608)
“We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.”
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher
As attributed in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899) by James Wood, p. 624
“To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet