Schoolmaster Quotes

• In every French village there is now a lighted torch, the schoolmaster; and a mouth trying to blow it out, the priest.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Priest
  • Torch
  • Schoolmaster

• I have always loved music; whoso has skill in this art, is of a good temperament, fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools; a schoolmaster ought to have skill in music, or I would not regard him; neither should we ordain young men as preachers, unless they have been well exercised in music.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Music
  • Art
  • Preachers

• The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Children
  • Person
  • Consideration

• Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Experience
  • Fees
  • Schoolmaster

• The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Practice
  • Result
  • Schoolmaster

• We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world. The lives that you admire, the attitudes that seem noble to you, have not been shaped by a paterfamilias or a schoolmaster, they have sprung from very different beginnings, having been influenced by evil or commonplace that prevailed round them. They represent a struggle and a victory.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Wisdom
  • Journey
  • Victory