Jean-Baptiste de La Salle Quotes

• Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one.

  Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

  Teacher, Teaching, Useless

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• Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water

  Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

  Leadership, Sports, Teacher

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• Hold prayer in high esteem. It is the foundation of all the virtues, and the source of all grace needed to sanctify ourselves and to discharge the duties of our employment.

  Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

  Prayer, Grace, Foundation

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• In taking soup, it is necessary to avoid lifting too much in the spoon, or filling the mouth so full as almost to stop the breath.

  Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

  Food, Cooking, Spoons

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• Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture.

  Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

  Children, Wall, Faces

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• The birch is used only out of bad temper and weakness, for the birch is a servile punishment which degrades the soul even when it corrects, if indeed it corrects, for its usual effect is to harden.

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  Punishment, Soul, Weakness

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