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The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.

The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.

Edmund Burke
Teaching, Investigation, Method
Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.3

For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.

Edmund Burke
Teaching, Barren, Investigation
Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.3

Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind is compelled to assent when they are proposed, are not always as present to us as they ought to be.

Edmund Burke
Teaching, Men, Ideas
Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.2071, Delphi Classics

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