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Colorado State

2020-07-16 · 2,634 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

Colorado State — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "Such an office demands an upright and incorruptible man, who would take delight in his pious work even without any pay,
Colorado State — pen and ink drawing

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"Such an office demands an upright and incorruptible man, who would take delight in his pious work even without any pay, while a high salary and a position of dignity would attract the meanest characters." – Erasmus, Letter to Joanes Sapidus (c. 1581)

"To make oneself interesting artificially," that is, interesting to those who have no interest in us, is indeed a very difficult task; and to arrest the attention hour after hour, and year after year, not of one, but of a multitude of persons who have nothing in common with us, not even years, is indeed a superhuman undertaking. Yet this is the task of the teacher, or, as he would say, his "art": to make this assembly of children whom he has…

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