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A man who attempts to debate when he cannot listen must make a wretched display of impotence.

— George Long

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It is an undoubted truth that, if a thing is not learned well, there is more harm done than good acquired.

All education which is in its kind complete and good, is the means of forming character, and of making useful men and women.

He will learn to observe carefully, and not to be deceived, as we sometimes are, by appearances.

I believe that many children in the humblest schools will observe and learn as well as those in other schools.

I think it is a truth, and an important truth, that the fundamentals of all school teaching ought to be the same.

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