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"What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it."	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years."	George Burns
"Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still."	George Eliot
"Education is about the only thing lying around loose in the world, and it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away."	George Lorimer
"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child."	George Santayana
"All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other."	George Eliot
"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"I must say the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth."	Goldie Hawn
"I must say the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth."	Goldie Hawn
"The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure."	Grayson Kirk
"Experience is a good school, but the fees are high."	Heinrich Heine
"I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound."	Helen Adams Keller
"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
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Herbert Clark Hoover	Horace Mann	Ignacio Estrada
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J(ohn) Edgar Hoover	Kahlil Gibran	Karl Kraus
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