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"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead."	Aristotle
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."	Aristotle
"For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own."	Athenæus
"It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers."	Author Unknown
"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
"Time as he grows old teaches many lessons."	Æschylus
"There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled."	Baltasar Gracian
"If kids come to us [educators/teachers] from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important."	Barbara Colorose
"At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me."	Barnaby C. Keeney
"The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education."	Barnaby C. Keeney
"The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them."	Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."	Benjamin Franklin
"To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do to another."	Benjamin Jowett
"Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends."	Benjamin Disraeli
"Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery."	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men."	Bill Beattie
"The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions."	Bishop Creighton
"Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar."	Bradley Miller
"A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence."	Bruce Lee
"Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide."	Buddha
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Adolf Hitler	Alben William Barkley	Albert Einstein
Aldous Leonard Huxley	Alec Bourne	Alexander Hamilton
Alexandre Dumas	Alvin Barkley	Amos Bronson Alcott
Anatole France	Andre Malraux	Anna James
Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh	Aristophenes	Aristotle
Athenæus	Author Unknown	A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti
A. Whitney Brown	Baltasar Gracian	Barbara Colorose
Barnaby C. Keeney	Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu	Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Franklin	Benjamin Jowett	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
Bill Beattie	Bishop Creighton	Bradley Miller
Bruce Lee	Buddha	Carl Gustav Jung
Charles Caleb Colton	Charles Mathias, Jr.	Charlotte Bronte
Child Age 7	Christa McAuliffe	Chuang-Tzu
Clay P. Bedford	Clive Staples Lewis	Confucius
C. Wright Mills	David P(ierpont) Gardner	Derek Curtis Bok
Doris Lessing	Dorothea Lange	Dr. Samuel Johnson
Dwight David Eisenhower	Edgar Albert Guest	Edith Ann
Edith Hamilton	Edmund Burke	Edward Everett
Edward Morgan Forster	Elbert Hubbard	Eldridge Cleaver
Ellen Gilcrist	Elliot Wayne Eisner	Epictetus
Erich Fromm	Ernest Dimnet	Ernest Leroy Boyer
Ernest Miller Hemingway	E(dward) E(stlin) Cummings	E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
Fran Lebowitz	Francis Keppel	Gail
Galileo Galilei	Geoffrey Holder	George Burns
George Eliot	George Santayana	George Lorimer
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Goldie Hawn
Grayson Kirk	Heinrich Heine	Helen Keller
Helen Adams Keller	Henri-Frédéric Amiel	Henry Anatole Grunwald
Henry Brooks Adams	Henry Louis Mencken	Henry Peter Brougham
Henry St. John Bolingbroke	Herbert Clark Hoover	Horace Mann
Ignacio Estrada	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jacques Martin Barzun
James Abram Garfield	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	James Truslow Adams
Jerome Seymour Bruner	Joel H. Hildebrand	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Keats	John Anthony Ciardi	John Burroughs
John Calvin	John Cotton Dana	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Holt	John W(illiam) Gardner	Joseph Addison
Joseph Joubert	J(ohn) Edgar Hoover	Kahlil Gibran
Karl Kraus	Kurt Herbert Alder	Kwan-Tzu
Lady Nancy Astor	Larry Hawkins	Lawrence Kubie
Lawrence Peter Berra	Leonardo da Vinci	Leon Lessinger
Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca	Louis A. Berman	Louis Dembitz Brandeis
Lyndon Baines Johnson	Malcolm Stevenson Forbes	Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Marcus Tullius Cicero	Maria Montessori	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo
Mark Twain	Mark McGee	Martin Luther
Mary Ingraham Bunting	Matthew Arnold	Maya Angelou
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides
Muhammad Ali	Nadia Boulanger	Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Noam Chomsky	Norman Cousins	Orson Welles
Otto Kleppner	Paul Anderson	Paul E. Gray
Paul Karl Feyerabend	Peter Cochrane	Peter F(erdinand) Drucker
Peter Marshall	Phyllis	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard David Bach	Richard Fenyman	Robert Frost
Robert G. Ingersoll	Robert Edward Lee	Robert Francis Kennedy
Robert Lee Frost	Robert Maynard Hutchins	Ron Dart
Russell Greene	Russell Hoban	R. J. Baughan
Saint Thomas Aquinas	Sandra Cisneros	Saul Bellow
Saying Folk	Shirley Mount Hufstedler	Simondes of Ceos
Sir James Matthew Barrie	Sir John Lubbock	Smiley Blanton
Stanley Kubrick	Stanley Lindquist	Stephen Neill
Susanna Moodie	S. Barry Lipkin	Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Carruthers	Thomas Henry Huxley	Timothy Leary
Truman Capote	Tryon Edwards	Ulysses S. Grant
Vartan Gregorian	Vernon Law	Victor Hugo
Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve	Walter Bagehot	Walter Savage Landor
Walt(er) Elias Disney	Warren G. Bennis	Wayne Knight
Will Durant	Will Rogers	William Hazlitt
William Jennings Bryan	William Adams	William Ellery Channing
William James "Will" Durant	William John Bennett	William Ralph Inge
William Torrey Harris	Wilson Mizner	Woody Allen
(George) Norman Douglas	(John) Calvin Coolidge	(Louis) Hector Berlioz
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