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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
"...what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most."	Matthew Arnold
"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child."	George Santayana
"A child miseducated is a child lost."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism."	Louis A. Berman
"A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence."	Bruce Lee
"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
"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
"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
"A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130."	Ernest Leroy Boyer
"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
"A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education."	Smiley Blanton
"A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops."	Henry Brooks Adams
"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."	Thomas Carruthers
"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron."	Horace Mann
"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
"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
"All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other."	George Eliot
"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."	Ernest Miller Hemingway
"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
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Andre Malraux	Anna James	Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
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Barbara Colorose	Barnaby C. Keeney	Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu
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 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	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 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	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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