No. 1, volume v, p. 331
Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)
“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other.”
An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
Context: The difficulty is to find teachers, particularly in the humble kind of schools, who can explain the elements of astronomy; but if teachers were taught such matters, they could explain them to others, and some of the teachers would be better employed in this way than in learning and teaching other things.... I believe that many children in the humblest schools will observe and learn as well as those in other schools. When children are younger, we must use other ways of training the eye to observe.
Source: Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.”
Source: Joseph Anton: A Memoir
“Please forget everything that you have learned in school; for you haven't learned it.”
Foundations of Analysis (1960) as quoted by Eli Maor, The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-year History (2007)
From Dare to Discipline discussed on Good-Natured Child Needs His Share of Parents' Attention, Focus on the Family, 11/21/2004
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