4 Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes on Teaching

Geoffrey Chaucer quotes on teaching

20. Of studie took he most cure and most hede. Noght o word spak he more than was nede, And that was seyd in forme and reverence, And short and quik, and ful of hy sentence. Souninge in moral vertu was his speche, And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.

25. This noble ensample to his shepe he yaf,- That first he wrought, and afterwards he taught.

26. But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve, He taught; but first he folwed it himselve.

45. But yet that holden this tale a folly, As of a fox, or of a cock and hen, Taketh the morality, good men. For Saint Paul saith that all that written is, To our doctrine it is y-writ, ywis; Taketh the fruit, and let the chaff be still.