A scholar should be like a leather bottle, which admits no wind like a deep garden bed, which retains its moisture like a pitch-coated vessel, which preserves its wine and like a sponge, which absorbs everything - The Talmud.A scholar is like a book written in a dead language: it is not everyone that can read in it -William Hazlitt.Rolling on like a great growing snowball through the vast field of medical knowledge -William James.The need of a teacher to believe now and again that she fosters genius is like the writer’s need to believe that he is one -Lael Tucker Wertenbaker.It’s like a three-year-old kid with a computer in his hand who can multiply 10.6 per cent interest of $11,653, but doesn’t know if a dime is larger or smaller than a nickel -Erma Bombeck
Many a scholar is like a cashier: he has the key to much money, but the money is not his -Ludwig Boerne.Learning without thought is labor lost -Confucius.Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use -William Shenstone.Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back -Chinese proverb.Learning in old age is like writing on sand learning in youth is like engraving on stone -Solomon Ibn Gabirol.If it lights upon the mind that is dull and heavy, like a crude and undigested mass it makes it duller and heavier, and chokes it up -Michel De Montaigne.Sapirstein, a psychologist, used this simile to introduce a discussion about the educational impulse and its relationship to the educational process. They will accept their deformation as the natural state of affairs and even take pride in it, as Chinese women once did in their crippled feet -Milton R. Human beings, like plants, can be twisted into strange shapes if their training begins early enough and is vigilantly supervised.He who teaches a child is like one who writes on paper but he who teaches old people is like one who writes on blotted paper - The Talmud.He was like an empty bucket waiting to be filled -William Diehl.Getting educated is like getting measles you have to go where the measles is -Abraham Flexner.Education, like politics, is a rough affair, and every instructor has to shut his eyes and hold his tongue as though he were a priest -Henry Adams.Education, like neurosis, begins at home -Milton R.See Also: PATRIOTISM, PEACE, REFORM, SENSE The charity comparison has been effectively linked with other subjects. Education begins, like charity, at home -Susan Ferraro, New York Times/Hers, March 26, 1987.Colleges are like old-age homes except for the fact that more people die in colleges -Bob Dylan.Alumni are like the wake of a ship they spread out and ultimately disappear, but not until they have made a few waves -Anon.
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