Though I have spoken in some detail of the duties of the teacher, I shall for the moment confine my advice to the learners to one solitary admonition, that they should love their masters not less than their studies, and should regard them as the parents not indeed of their bodies but of their minds.
Such attachments are of invaluable assistance to study. For under their influence they find it a pleasure to listen to their teachers, believe what they say and long to be like them, come cheerfully and gladly to school, are not angry when corrected, rejoice when praised, and seek to win their master's affection by the devotion with which they pursue their studies.
For as it is the duty of the master to teach, so it is the duty of the
pupil to show himself teachable. The two obligations are mutually
indispensable. And just as it takes two parents to produce a human
being, and as the seed is scattered in vain, if the ground is hard and
there is no furrow to receive it and bring it to growth, even so
eloquence can never come to