Not to keep from error, is the duty of the educator of men, but to guide the erring one, even to let him swill his error out of full cups - that is the wisdom of teachers. Whoever merely tastes of his error, will keep house with it for a long time, ... but whoever drains it completely will have to get to know it. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Not to keep from error, is the duty of the educator of men, but to guide the erring one, even to let him swill his error out of full cups - that is the wisdom of teachers. Whoever merely tastes of his error, will keep house with it for a long time, ... but whoever drains it completely will have to get to know it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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