Samuel Johnson Quotes About Teaching

• Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Teaching, Learning

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 18 Apr. 1775)

• The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

  Samuel Johnson

  Graduation, Education, Teaching

• Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Teaching, Lectures

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.69

• You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.

  Samuel Johnson

  Teaching, Men, Shoes

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