The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the social kneading board.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant.
I trust everything, under God, to habit, upon which, in all ages, the lawgiver, as well as the schoolmaster, has mainly placed his reliance,--habit, which makes everything easy, and casts all difficulties upon the deviation from the wonted course.
I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.
if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and trameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably!
A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.
The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life.
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.
Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.
One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.
A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival Chen, a Chinese schoolmaster in Vietnam. This extraordinary book made me weep. Read it.
The average schoolmaster is, and always must be, an ass.
O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago; The schoolmaster over the land is advancing, Then why is the master of dancing so slow? It is such a bore to be always caught tripping In dull uniformity year after year; Invent something new, and you'll set me a skipping: I want a new figure to dance with my Dear!
The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom.
I have always loved music; whoso has skill in this art, is of a good temperament, fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools; a schoolmaster ought to have skill in music, or I would not regard him; neither should we ordain young men as preachers, unless they have been well exercised in music
