 | 1921 - 466 sidor
...ocean into another till he had learned to swim; but even to him education was a serious thing. A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer...eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. A teacher is expected to teach truth, and may perhaps flatter himself that he does so, if he stops... | |
 | 1920 - 598 sidor
...Adams had a keen sense of the responsibility of educators. He rather dramatically affirms: " A parent gives life, but, as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher effects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops." Broadly speaking, any one who is responsible... | |
 | 1919 - 858 sidor
..."He knew enough to be ignorant. . . But education was a serious thing. A parent gives life, but as a parent gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his...can never tell where his influence stops . . . He makes of his scholars either priests or atheists, plutocrats or socialists, judges or anarchists, almost... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1918 - 538 sidor
...ocean into another till he had learned to swim; but even to him education was a serious thing. A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer...eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. A teacher is expected to teach truth, and may perhaps flatter himself that he does so, if he stops... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1918 - 538 sidor
...into another till he had learned i to swim; but even to him education was a serious thing. A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer...stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never I— tell where his influence stops. A teacher is expected to teach truth, and may perhaps flatter... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1918 - 538 sidor
...ocean into another till he had learned to swim; but even to him education was a serious thing. A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. Ateacher affects eternityjjie can never tejl where his .influence_stqps._A teacher is expected to teach... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1918 - 546 sidor
...more or less, to the Middle Ages. Not that his ignorance troubled him! He knew enough to be ignorant. His course had led him through oceans of ignorance; he had tumbled from one ocean into another till he had learned to swim ; but even to him education was a serious thing. A parent gives life, but... | |
 | 1953 - 348 sidor
...been turned to useful account beyond the power of any man to estimate. In the words of Henry Adams, "A teacher affects eternity. He can never tell where his influence stops." Fellowship Program for High-School Teachers THE FUND for the Advancement of Education, established... | |
 | National Catholic Educational Association - 1919 - 1272 sidor
...a perfect heart and do that which is good in His sight. (Is. xxxviii. 3.) A modern cynic has said: "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." It is just this that forces the Church to examine the credentials of the teachers of her children,... | |
 | Gamaliel Bradford - 1922 - 298 sidor
...no more profitable than learning. He had a keen sense of the responsibilities of his task. "A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer...eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." lf> He knew his own vast ignorance, as his pupils did not know theirs. "His course had led him through... | |
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A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. 
