"Pupils may learn many things when a teacher is not in fact teaching."

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Paul Q. Hirst

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“I soon came to understand that drink, tobacco and prostitutes were all great means if dissipating (even for a few moments) my dread for human beings. I came even to feel that if I had to sell every last possession to obtain these means of escape, it would be well worth it.”
“One must not hope to be more than one can be.”
“My difficulties belong to me!”
“It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.”

Source : Ellis Peters (2015). “The House Of Green Turf”, p.67, Head of Zeus
“Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.”
“Lack of outlets, excess capacity, complete deadlock, in the end regular recurrence of national bankruptcies and other disasters-perhaps world wars from sheer capitalist despair-may confidently be anticipated. History is as simple a that.”
“If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.”
“Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with as many patrons as beholders.”

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