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"He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live." Michel Eyquem de Montaigne 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity." Maria Montessori 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation." Stephen Neill 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig." Saying Folk 4.9792 average rating Rate this Quote
"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers." Kahlil Gibran 4.9714 average rating Rate this Quote
"The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk." Alben William Barkley 4.9444 average rating Rate this Quote
"Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way." Noam Chomsky 4.9444 average rating Rate this Quote
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." Louis Dembitz Brandeis 4.9268 average rating Rate this Quote
"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 4.9091 average rating Rate this Quote
"We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides." Saint Thomas Aquinas 4.9024 average rating Rate this Quote
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education." Albert Einstein 4.9011 average rating Rate this Quote
"In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else." Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca 4.9000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." Derek Curtis Bok 4.8889 average rating Rate this Quote
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (John) Calvin Coolidge 4.8873 average rating Rate this Quote
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." Albert Einstein 4.8846 average rating Rate this Quote
"Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt." Paul Anderson 4.8750 average rating Rate this Quote
"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things." Saul Bellow 4.8667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man." Norman Cousins 4.8571 average rating Rate this Quote
"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards." Anatole France 4.8571 average rating Rate this Quote
"The good teacher ... discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them by the stimulating influence of the inspiration that he can impart. The true leader makes his followers twice the men they were before." Stephen Neill 4.8571 average rating Rate this Quote
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