My one pupil has begun his work with me, and I will give you a description how the lecture is conducted. It is the most important ...point, you know, that the tutor should be dignified and at a distance from the pupil, and that the pupil should be as much as possible degraded.... So I sit at the further end of the room; outside the door (which is shut) sits the scout; outside the outer door (also shut) sits the sub-scout: half-way downstairs sits the sub- sub-scout: and down in the yard sits the pupil. The questions are shouted from one to the other, and the answers come back in the same way--it is rather confusing till you are well used to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The logical English train a scholar as they train an engineer. Oxford is Greek factory, as Wilton mills weave carpet, and Sheffiel...d grinds steel. They know the use of a tutor, as they know the use of a horse; and they draw the greatest amount of benefit from both. The reading men are kept by hard walking, hard riding, and measured eating and drinking, at the top of their condition, and two days before the examination, do not work but lounge, ride, or run, to be fresh on the college doomsday.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dange...rous enemy: the past, gloomy prevaricator, execrable tutor?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you're un...explained as yet--you've not got your niche in creation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that e...very child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One may confidently assert that when thirty thousand men fight a pitched battle against an equal number of troops, there are about... twenty thousand on each side with the pox.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O my dear Candide! You knew Paquette, that pretty attendant of our august baroness; I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise,... which produced these torments of hell by which you see me devoured; she was infected and may have died of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »