I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

He had never got so much back for himself from any pupil as he did from Miss Kronborg. From the first she had stimulated him; something in her personality invariably affected him. Now that he was feeling his way toward her voice, he found her more interesting than ever before. She lifted the tedium of the winter for him, gave him curious fancies and reveries. Musically, she was sympathetic to him. Why this was true, he never asked himself. He had learned that one must take where and when one can the mysterious mental irritant that rouses one's imagination; that it is not to be had by order. She often wearied him, but she never bored him.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

Making your mark in the world is better than making trouble.

You are both the worshipper and the worshipped.

Education costs an arm and a leg, but ignorance costs you your mind and your soul.

A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance.

Do not trust a teacher that is unwilling to learn.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.