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“No man says of another “I educated him.”  It would be offense and would suggest that the victim was only a puppy when first taken in hand.  It is a proud thing to say ‘I taught him’—and a wise one not to specify what” (10)
“Imagine the daily predicament, someone asks ‘What do you do?’—‘I profess and I educate.’  Its is unspeakable and absurd.”
“The advantage of [the word] ‘teaching’ is that in using it you must recognize—if you are in your sober senses—that practical limits exist” (14)
from Jacques Barzun, Teacher in America.

“Should we trust in the authority of the theorist?  If he offers no support for what he says, it is then either just something that he knows (that is, not what he himself has discovered, but rather what he has learned [secondhand]), or what all believe because it is experienced by all.” A. Schoenberg Theory of Harmony