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Quintilian
Roman
Educator
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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
Quintilian,
Roman
Educator
#Imagination
#Mind
#Promise
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.
Quintilian,
Roman
Educator
#Mind
#Effort
#Worth
#Faults
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
Quintilian,
Roman
Educator
#Defeat
#Yield
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
Quintilian,
Roman
Educator
#Hope
#Yield
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
Quintilian,
Roman
Educator
#Satire
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
Quintilian,
Roman
Educator
#Cause
#Vice
#Ambition
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
Quintilian,
Roman
Educator
#Effect
#Nature
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
Quintilian,
Roman
Educator
#Rules
#Gifts
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
Quintilian,
Roman
Educator
#Words
#Will
#First
It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
Quintilian,
Roman
Educator
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
Quintilian,
Roman
Educator
#Mind
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
Quintilian,
Roman
Educator
#Work
#Will
#Talent
#Profit
#Agriculture
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
Quintilian,
Roman
Educator
#Parents
#Fathers
A liar should have a good memory.
Quintilian,
Roman
Educator
#Memory
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
Quintilian,
Roman
Educator
#Character
#Mind
#Virtue
#Vice
#Variety
#Contemplation
#Multiplicity