Teachers who are skilled in disputation and those who are occupied with astronomy and geometry and studies of that sort do not injure but, on the contrary, benefit their pupils, not so much as they profess, but more than others give them credit for. Isocrates. Antidosis. Speech 15. Section 261.
Image: Hypatia (1885) by Charles William Mitchell at the Laling Art Gallery at Newcastle Upon Tyne in the UK. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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