Seneca the Younger Quotes About Teachers

• The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.

  Seneca the Younger

  Teacher, Pilots, Sail

• Men learn while they teach.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Epistulae 7.8 (translated by R M Gummere).

• It is one thing to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to the memory. But to know is to make each thing one's own, not depend on the text and always to look back to the teacher. "Zeno said this, Cleanthes said this." Let there be space between you and the book.

  Seneca the Younger

  Teacher, Memories, Book

• Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher

  Seneca the Younger

  Teacher, Learning, Vices

• A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.

  Seneca the Younger

  Education, Teacher, Men

• Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

  Seneca the Younger

  Teacher, Vices, Directors

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