It is lawful to be taught by an enemy. — Ovid Fas est ab hoste doceri. Original text (Latin) Share this quote Post on X Facebook Download image Copy quote Copy link Share… Another quote → Topics Teacher
Tis hard, I admit, yet virtue aims at what is hard, and gratitude for such a service will be all the greater.
Each of these private teachers who work for pay ... inculcates nothing else than these opinions of the multitude which they opine when they are assembled and calls this knowledge wisdom. Socrates
The land is the real teacher. All we need as students is mindfulness. Paying attention is a form of reciprocity with the living world, receiving the gifts with open eyes and open heart. Robin Wall Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)
School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers. H. L. Mencken The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1908)