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Updated: May 5, 2025
Goethe quotes his docendo discitur, but these gentlemen do not seem to know how small my learning is. To Lotte he declared that he should feel ridiculous in the new situation. 'Many a student will perhaps know more history than the professor.
But a Professor, I trust, is like other men, capable of improvement; and the great law, 'docendo disces, may be fulfilled in him, as in other men. Meanwhile, I can only promise that such small powers as I possess will be honestly devoted to this Professorate; and that I shall endeavour to teach Modern History after a method which shall give satisfaction to the Rulers of this University.
He uses the illustration to enforce the duty of liberality in imparting our knowledge to others. Knowledge, he says, unlike other treasures, is not diminished by giving. The illustration fails to express the whole truth. This imparting of knowledge to others, not only does not impoverish the donor, but it actually increases his riches. Docendo discimus. By teaching we learn.
Then, too, was borne in upon me the meaning of the proverb docendo disces. I found energetic Western men in my classes ready to discuss historical questions, and discovered that in order to keep up my part of the discussions, as well as to fit myself for my class-room duties, I must work as I had never worked before.
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