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"Experience teaches only the teachable." Aldous Leonard Huxley 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress." John Calvin 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"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 4.1667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." Muhammad Ali 4.7372 average rating Rate this Quote
"From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty." (On signing law for inclusion of the words 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance, 14 Jun 54)" Dwight David Eisenhower 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." Benjamin Franklin 4.6923 average rating Rate this Quote
"God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them." Stanley Lindquist 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater." Gail 4.8333 average rating Rate this Quote
"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 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"He who opens a school door, closes a prison." Victor Hugo 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"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
"High office teaches decision making, not substance. [It] consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make." Robert Francis Kennedy 1.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"History is philosophy teaching by examples." Henry St. John Bolingbroke 3.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." Abba Eban 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it." Alexandre Dumas 4.8333 average rating Rate this Quote
"Human beings are full of emotion, and the teacher who knows how to use it will have dedicated learners. It means sending dominant signals instead of submissive ones with your eyes, body and voice." Leon Lessinger 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog." Sandra Cisneros 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better than book or orator." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 3.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition: the brown bag. ... Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home." Charles Mathias, Jr. 2.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies." Christa McAuliffe 4.4286 average rating Rate this Quote
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