The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.
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You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of his tuition com...
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Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.
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Galatians 3:24:
So the law was put in charge of us until Christ came that we might be justified by faith.
(NIV)
So that the Law served [to us Jews] as our trainer [our guardian, our guide to Christ, to lead us] until Christ [came], that we might be justified (declared righteous, put in right standing with God) by and through faith.
(AMP)
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
(KJV)
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The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?
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Society is like a schoolmaster who estimates boys according to their conformity to a standard that is easiest for running a school.
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Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
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Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.
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