Education Quotes... S

“It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first.  You may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the mean time your breech is bare.  Sir, while you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learned them both.”
                                                Samuel Johnson

“The city is the teacher of the man.”
                                                Simonides

“We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.”
                                                Sir Walter Scott

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