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Alice Wellington Rollins
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“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.”
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“The test of a student is not how much he knows, but how much he wants to know.”
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“God's best gift to us is that he gives not things, but opportunities.”
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“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, U.S. writer, educator
(1847 - 1897)