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“The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.”

Frederick William Robertson · Teacher

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Frederick William Robertson

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

Men

Frederick William Robertson

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

Education

Frederick William Robertson

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

Wisdom

Frederick William Robertson

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

Forgiveness