Vladimir Nabokov Quotes About Teachers

Quotes about: Teachers

• There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools' and 'movements' are everything; by painting a group symbol on the brow of mediocrity, they condone their own incomprehension of true genius.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Teacher, School, Squares

• Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Teacher, Mean, Cocky

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “Pnin”, p.161, Vintage

• A major writer combines these three - storyteller, teacher, enchanter - but it is the enchanter in him that predominates and makes him a major writer.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Teacher, Writing, Three

  Vladimir Nabokov (2017). “Lectures on Literature”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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