“Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown propos'd as things forgot.”

— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1709), Part III

About Alexander Pope

1688 – 1744

English poet, author of "An Essay on Criticism" and "The Rape of the Lock".

“To err is human, to forgive divine.”

“Years following years steal something ev'ry day. At last they steal us from ourselves away.”

“Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'tis but the funeral of the former year.”

“If you teach a man anything he will never learn it.”

“The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.”

“Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.”

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”

“Education makes a greater difference between man and man, than nature has made between man and brute.”

“Education with inert ideas is not only useless: it is, above all things, harmful.”