To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song. – Henri Frederic Amiel

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Art
category

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy. – Akhenaton

Category:
Art

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. – Jonathan Swift

Category:
Art

Painting is easy when you dont know how, but very difficult when you do. – Edgar Degas

Category:
Art

The first mistake of art is to assume that its serious. – Lester Bangs

Category:
Art

Random Quotes

A “Normal” person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, “Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray.” – Alan Sherman

Category:
Committees

Money is like an arm or leg – use it or lose it. – Henry Ford

Category:
Money

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. – W. H. Auden

Category:
Death

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. – Francis Bacon

Category:
Money