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"The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community-these are the most vital things education must try to produce." Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"...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 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events." John Fitzgerald Kennedy 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"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 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man." Andre Malraux 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Education is the best provision for old age." Aristotle 4.4878 average rating Rate this Quote
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle 4.4603 average rating Rate this Quote
"A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence." Bruce Lee 4.4444 average rating Rate this Quote
"When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me." Woody Allen 4.4375 average rating Rate this Quote
"To know how to suggest is the art of teaching." Henri-Frédéric Amiel 4.4375 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
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education." Wilson Mizner 4.4286 average rating Rate this Quote
"A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education." Smiley Blanton 4.4118 average rating Rate this Quote
"My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it." Abraham Lincoln 4.4118 average rating Rate this Quote
"Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education." Chuang-Tzu 4.4000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others." Tryon Edwards 4.4000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon." Edward Morgan Forster 4.4000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men." Bill Beattie 4.3871 average rating Rate this Quote
"A child miseducated is a child lost." John Fitzgerald Kennedy 4.3600 average rating Rate this Quote
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