Mark Hopkins and Education

StoryParableHistorical Account★

Greeting his pupils, the master asked: What would you learn of me?

And a farm boy sat on the other.
Mark Hopkins came as a pedagogue
And taught as an elder brother.
I don’t care what Mark Hopkins taught,

— Used

Also attributed to: Unknown

The point

A fragment referencing the Mark Hopkins 'log' teaching anecdote, but the text is jumbled and cuts off mid-thought without completing its point.

Scripture

Proverbs 22:61 Corinthians 11:12 Corinthians 3:2-3

Audience

AdultsYouth

Occasions

Graduation · Teacher_appreciation

To tell aloud

under a minute · 39 words

Subjects

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