Other related topics at: Careers Education 865. Teachers "Among those whose hopes of distinction or riches arise from an opinion of their intellectual attainment, it has been, from age to age, an established custom to complain of ingratitude of mankind to their instructors, and the discouragement which men of genius and study suffer from avarice and ignorance, from the prevalence of false taste, and the encroachment of barbarity." Johnson: Rambler #77 (December 11, 1750) Link 1,021. Biography; Teachers "They [Milton's biographers] are unwilling that Milton should be degraded to a schoolmaster; but, since it cannot be denied that he taught boys, one finds out that he taught for nothing, and another that his motive was only zeal for the propagation of learning and virtue; and all tell what they do not know to be true, only to excuse an act which no wise man will consider as in itself disgraceful. His father was alive, his allowance was not ample, and he supplied its deficiencies by an honest and useful employment." Johnson: Milton (Lives of the Poets) Link 1,022. Learning; Teachers "It is told that in the art of education he [Milton] performed wonders... Those who tell or receive these stories should consider that nobody can be taught faster than he can learn. The speed of the horseman must be limited by the power of his horse. Every man that has ever undertaken to instruct others can tell what slow advances he has been able to make, and how much patience it requires to recall vagrant inattention, to stimulate sluggish indifference, and to rectify absurd misapprehension." Johnson: Milton (Lives of the Poets) Link 1,558. Knowledge; Teaching "To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and he is by no means to be accounted useless or idle, who has stored his mind with acquired knowledge, and can detail it occasionally to others who have less leisure or weaker abilities." Johnson: Adventurer #85 (August 28, 1753) Link 1,672. Teaching; Parallels "To illustrate one thing by its resemblance to another, has been always the most popular and efficacious art of instruction. There is indeed no other method of teaching that of which any one is ignorant, but by means of something already known; and a mind so enlarged by contemplation and inquiry that it has always many objects within its view, will seldom be long without some near and familiar image through which an easy transition may be made to truths more distant and obscure." Johnson: Idler #34 (December 9, 1758) Link