Quotes on Overdoing It

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish - don't overdo it.

The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)