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Alice Wellington Rollins

  • The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer.

    • Alice Wellington Rollins,
    • in Journal of Education ()
  • The test of a student is not how much he knows, but how much he wants to know.

    • Alice Wellington Rollins,
    • in Journal of Education ()
  • God's best gift to us is that he gives not things, but opportunities.

    • Alice Wellington Rollins,
    • in Poems by Grades ()
  • You are not necessarily educated because you have been to college. Each soul needs a different education. Many a man has been educated by his folly.

    • Alice Wellington Rollins

Alice Wellington Rollins, U.S. writer, educator

(1847 - 1897)