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"Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. 'Light! Give me light!' was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour."	Helen Adams Keller
"To know how to suggest is the art of teaching."	Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable? Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic? The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter."	Henry Anatole Grunwald
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts."	Henry Brooks Adams
"A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops."	Henry Brooks Adams
"The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality."	Henry Louis Mencken
"School days are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency."	Henry Louis Mencken
"Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."	Henry Peter Brougham
"History is philosophy teaching by examples."	Henry St. John Bolingbroke
"No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him."	Herbert Clark Hoover
"Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity."	Horace Mann
"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron."	Horace Mann
"If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn."	Ignacio Estrada
"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
"If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think it's okay to feed some bits of your friend to one of the vultures, to teach him to do some tricks. But ONLY if you're serious about adopting the vulture."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"If you ever teach a yodeling class, probably the hardest thing is to keep the students from just trying to yodel right off. You see, we BUILD to that."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"If you had a school for professional fireworks people, I don't think you could cover fuses in just one class. It's just too rich a subject."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"I hope in the future Americans are thought of as a warlike, vicious people, because I bet a lot of high schools would pick 'Americans' as their mascot."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition."	Jacques Martin Barzun
"The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind."	Jacques Martin Barzun
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Bruce Lee	Buddha	Carl Gustav Jung
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Edith Hamilton	Edmund Burke	Edward Everett
Edward Morgan Forster	Elbert Hubbard	Eldridge Cleaver
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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
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