From Johnson's Life of Milton: "Those who tell or receive these stories should consider, that nobody can be taught faster than he can learn. The speed of the h

From Johnson's Life of Milton: "Those who tell or receive these stories should consider, that nobody can be taught faster than he can learn. The speed of the horseman must be limited by the power of his horse. Every man that has ever undertaken to instruct others can tell what slow advances he has been able to make, and how much patience it requires to recall vagrant inattention, to stimulate sluggish indifference, and to rectify absurd misapprehension." When I think back to high school, a long time now, I had some very good teachers and some that were sound. I don't remember any I'd call inspiring. The deficient ones were not less inspiring, they lacked a mastery of the subject.