"In my opinion, the more one sings, the better one works;" and often the pedagogue would relate how, in a former school of his, the silence had been such that a fly could be heard buzzing on the wing, and for the space of a whole year not a single pupil sneezed or coughed in class, and so complete was the absence of all sound that no one could have told that there was a soul in the place.
Aurpegia eta begiak atseginez dirdirka kontatzen zuen beti nola, lehenagoko garai batean irakasle jardun zuen eskolan, hain izaten zen handia isiltasuna, ezen eulien hegaldiaren hotsa entzun baitzitekeen, eta nola ikasleek ez zuten behin ere eztulik edo zintzik egin ikasturte osoan, eta nola txilinak jo arte ez zegoen jakiterik ikasgelan inor bazegoen ala ez.