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"Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson." Vernon Law 4.7059 average rating Rate this Quote
"...what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most." Matthew Arnold 4.7000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The education of a man is never completed until he dies." Robert Edward Lee 4.7000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops." Henry Brooks Adams 4.6923 average rating Rate this Quote
"The years teach much which the days never know." Ralph Waldo Emerson 4.6923 average rating Rate this Quote
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." Benjamin Franklin 4.6923 average rating Rate this Quote
"If you give a man a fish, he will have a single meal. If you teach him how to fish, he will eat all his life." Kwan-Tzu 4.6750 average rating Rate this Quote
"A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130." Ernest Leroy Boyer 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think it's okay to feed some bits of your friend to one of the vultures, to teach him to do some tricks. But ONLY if you're serious about adopting the vulture." Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"He who opens a school door, closes a prison." Victor Hugo 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Experience teaches only the teachable." Aldous Leonard Huxley 4.6667 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
"Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity." Horace Mann 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron." Horace Mann 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master." Maria Montessori 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition." Jacques Martin Barzun 4.6364 average rating Rate this Quote
"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 4.6364 average rating Rate this Quote
"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 4.6190 average rating Rate this Quote
"You cannot teach a man anything.; you can only help him to find it for himself." Galileo Galilei 4.6154 average rating Rate this Quote
"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated." Alec Bourne 4.6000 average rating Rate this Quote
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