Our mission as teachers is to show the right way to those who come after us.
In plain words
A teacher's real job is to guide the people coming up behind them and show the way forward.
Where these words come from
- 93% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- 'Music in America,' Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February 1895 (essay under Dvořák's byline; endnote acknowledges the co-operation of Edwin Emerson, Jr.).
- Music in America (essay), Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February 1895
- 1895 · New York, USA · written while directing New York's National Conservatory of Music, on his duty to young American musicians
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