The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
When I was seven, I had to stay home for several weeks because of some ailment, whereupon my father elected to teach me so that I should not fall behind. In fact, he taught me in three months as much as the school taught in two years, so, on returning to school, I was shifted from grade 4 to grade 6.
I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.
It was the case for a number of years that I was doing a book a year, but that was back when I was part-time teaching - and since 1991, I've been a parent, so that cuts into the time!
A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.
I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.
At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.