Quotes

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater." ---Gail Godwin

"When thoughts fail of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words." ---Author Unknown

"By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn." ---Latin Proverb

"Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone." ---Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you cannot see what could happen, you will never see what must be done." ---Joshua Fitch

"Nothing would be done, at all, if we waited until we could do it so well that no one could find fault with it."---Cardinal Newman

"If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur." ---Doug Larson

"The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself." ---Edward Bulwer-Lytton

"Education is the progressive discovery of our own ignorance." ---Will Durant

"Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of language." ---Noah Webster

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." ---Malcolm Forbes

"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand." ---Frank Herbert

"Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken." ---Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing

"Only the educated are free." ---Epictetus

"The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language." ---Henri Delacroix

"Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life." ---Lord Macaulay