I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.

As to what happened next, it is possible to maintain that the hand of heaven was involved, and also possible to say that when men are desperate no one can stand up to them.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.