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"I've learned that I like my teacher because she cries when we sing Silent Night."	Child Age 7
"I've learned that when I wave to people in the country, they stop what they are doing and wave back."	Child Age 9
"Will your child learn to multiply before she learns to subtract?"	Children's Defense Fund
"Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?"	Clarence Seward Darrow
"You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives."	Clay P. Bedford
"You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives."	Clay P. Bedford
"What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods? The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' Children who are fit to proceed may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when 'I'm as good as you' has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway, the teachers -- or should I say nurses? -- will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men."	Clive Staples Lewis
"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous."	Confucius
"He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."	Confucius
"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."	Confucius
"The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous."	Dame Margot Fonteyn
"In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home."	Dave Barry
"Most of us have been taught about the need to appropriate by faith what is already ours through grace. We all desire to have more joy in our Christian life. The keys to experiencing joy are available to all of us. We need to understand the gospel of the grace of God as revealed to the Apostle Paul. Then as we put Paul's instructions into practice, we will come to know God experientially. This will cause us to know Him better which will cause us to want to obey more, and on and on it goes. Then as we learn and obey God and become focused on spiritual things instead of earthly things, we will become thankful for everything that God has provided for us in Christ. Knowledge, obedience, and thankfulness will then lead to abundant joy in our everyday life! In the words of the old hymn: Trust and obey, For there's no other way, To be happy in Jesus, But to trust and obey."	David Havard
"We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live."	David P(ierpont) Gardner
"I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization."	Detronius Arbiter
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn."	Don Herold
"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."	Doris Lessing
"If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself."	Dorothy Law Nolte
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."	Douglas Noel Adams
"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."	Douglas Noel Adams
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Dudley Field Malone	Dwight David Eisenhower	Earl Nightingale
Edgar Watson Howe	Edmund Burke	Edward Fitzgerald
Eleanor Marx	Elias Canetti	Epictetus
Epicurus	Eric Butterworth	Eric Hoffer
Ernest Miller Hemingway	Ethel Barrymore	Ethel Perry Andrus
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Frederick Chiluba	Gaius Julius Caesar	Garry Marshall
George Santayana	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	Gerald R. Ford
Glenda Jackson	Goldie Hawn	Hal Borland
Helen Adams Keller	Helen Hayes	Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Henry Ford	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Henry Anatole Grunwald
Henry Brooks Adams	Herman Hesse	H.G. Wells
Horace Mann	H. Stanley Judd	Ignacio Estrada
Isha McKenzie-Mavinga	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jack William Nicklaus
Jacques Martin Barzun	James Madison	James Waddell Alexander, II
Jean de La Fontaine	Jiddu Krishnamurti	Joe Moore
John Dewey	John Calvin	John Cotton Dana
John C. Maxwell	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Fredericksen
John Gray	John Holt	John McEnroe
John Morley	John Newton	John Wood Campbell, Jr.
Joseph Chamberlain	Joseph Conrad	Joseph Joubert
Juliene Berk	Juvenal	J(ames) William Fulbright
Kabbalah	Kahlil Gibran	Ken Lancaster
Kim Hubbard	Kurt Herbert Alder	Lao-Tzu
Lawrence Peter Berra	Leonard Bernstein	Leon Lessinger
Lloyd Alexander	Lord Macaulay	Louisa May Alcott
Lucille Ball	Lyndon Baines Johnson	Madame Chiang
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes	Marcus Aurelius Antoninus	Marcus Tullius Cicero
Margaret Mead	Maria Mitchell	Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Mark Twain	Mark McClinchie	Mark McGee
Marla Jones	Martina Horner	Martin Luther King, Jr.
Maxim Gorky	May-lin Soong Chiang	Miguel de Cervantes
Morris Adler	Moshe Arens	Muhammad Ali
Nan Fairbrother	Napolean Hill	Neill MacRae
Ogden Nash	Oliver Wendell Holmes	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Stanley Lindquist	Stephen Butler Leacock
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