Famous quotes containing the word teach:
“I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“Teach a child to play solitaire, and she’ll be able to entertain herself when there’s no one around. Teach her tennis, and she’ll know what to do when she’s on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home.”
—Joyce Maynard (20th century)
“Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the
Christian conception of entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)