Quotes by Tryon Edwards

“One mark of a great educator is the ability to lead students out to new places where even the educator has never been”

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”

“The difference between good teachers and great teachers is that great teachers have mastered the art of teaching people things they didnt know they needed to learn.”

“The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon”

“You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil”

“A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece”

“A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.”

“To teach is to learn.”

“Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong”

Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spiders web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

To rule ones anger is well to prevent it is better.