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"...since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned." John Holt 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"...what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most." Matthew Arnold 4.7000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A child miseducated is a child lost." John Fitzgerald Kennedy 4.3600 average rating Rate this Quote
"A child … must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks." Helen Keller 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism." Louis A. Berman 4.8333 average rating Rate this Quote
"A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence." Bruce Lee 4.4444 average rating Rate this Quote
"A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching." A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching." A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." Albert Einstein 4.6190 average rating Rate this Quote
"A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130." Ernest Leroy Boyer 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight." Martin Luther 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education." Smiley Blanton 4.4118 average rating Rate this Quote
"A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops." Henry Brooks Adams 4.6923 average rating Rate this Quote
"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary." Thomas Carruthers 4.5417 average rating Rate this Quote
"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron." Horace Mann 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth ... Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar." J(ohn) Edgar Hoover 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow." Susanna Moodie 4.2500 average rating Rate this Quote
"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." Ernest Miller Hemingway 4.8333 average rating Rate this Quote
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't." Anatole France 4.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life." Author Unknown 4.2000 average rating Rate this Quote
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