Charles Caleb Colton Quotes About Teaching

Quotes about: Teaching

• When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Teaching, Silence, Statistics

  'Lacon' (1820) vol. 1, no. 183

• Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Education, Teaching, Knowledge

  'Lacon' (1820) vol. 1, no. 322

• Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Education, Teaching, Brain

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.300

• Where thou perceivest knowledge, bend the ear of attention and respect; But yield not further to the teaching, than as thy mind is warranted by reasons. Better is an obstinant disputant, that yieldeth inch by inch, Than the shallow traitor to himself, who surrendereth to half an argument.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Teaching, Knowledge, Yield

• All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry, with competent erudition; a mind depending more on its correctness than its originality, and on its memory rather than on its invention.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Memories, Teaching, Should Have

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.161

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