Robert Burns Quotes About Teaching

Quotes about: Teaching

• Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire,
  That's a' the learning I desire.

  Robert Burns

  Teacher, Nature, Teaching

  'Epistle to J. L[aprai]k' (1786) st. 13

• God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.

  Robert Burns

  Teacher, Father, Teaching

  Robert Burns (1819). “The Prose Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Letters and Correspondence, Literary and Critical, and Amatory Epistles Including Letters to Clarinda, &c., &c”, p.215

• What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.

  Robert Burns

  Latin, Teaching, School

  Robert Burns, James Currie (1835). “The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings”, p.132

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