Charles Caleb Colton Quotes about Teaching

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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Charles Caleb Colton

Education, Teaching, Knowledge

'Lacon' (1820) vol. 1, no. 322

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Charles Caleb Colton

Teaching, Silence, Statistics

'Lacon' (1820) vol. 1, no. 183

Where thou perceivest knowledge, bend the ear of attention and respect; But yield not further to the teaching, than as thy mind is warranted by reasons. Better is an obstinant disputant, that yieldeth inch by inch, Than the shallow traitor to himself, who surrendereth to half an argument.

Charles Caleb Colton

Teaching, Knowledge, Yield

All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry, with competent erudition; a mind depending more on its correctness than its originality, and on its memory rather than on its invention.

Charles Caleb Colton

Memories, Teaching, Should Have

Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.161