John Seward Johnson I

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    Quintilian [educational writer in Rome about A.D. 100] hoped that teachers would be sensitive to individual differences of temperament and ability. . . . Beating, he thought, was usually unnecessary. A teacher who had made the effort to understand his pupil’s individual needs and character could probably dispense with it: “I will content myself with saying that children are helpless and easily victimized, and that therefore no one should be given unlimited power over them.”
    —C. John Sommerville (20th century)

    A woman preaching is like a dog’s walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)