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"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
"Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity."	Lady Nancy Astor
"We need programs that will teach athletes how to spell 'jump shot' rather than how to shoot it."	Larry Hawkins
"Today's family is built like a pyramid; with all the intrafamilial rivalries, tensions, jealousies, angers, hatreds, loves and needs focused on the untrained, vulnerable, insecure, young, inexperienced and incompetent parental apex ... about whose incompetence our vaunted educational system does nothing."	Lawrence Kubie
"I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did."	Lawrence Peter Berra
"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
"People react to fear, not love- they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true."	Leonardo da Vinci
"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
"A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism."	Louis A. Berman
"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
"Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. ... We have truly entered the century of the educated man."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."	Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
"Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them."	Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."	Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn."	Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity."	Maria Montessori
"The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon."	Maria Montessori
"We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master."	Maria Montessori
"I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example."	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo
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Andre Malraux	Anna James	Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
Aristophenes	Aristotle	Athenæus
A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti	A. Whitney Brown	Baltasar Gracian
Barbara Colorose	Barnaby C. Keeney	Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu
Benjamin Franklin	Benjamin Jowett	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
Bill Beattie	Bishop Creighton	Bradley Miller
Bruce Lee	Buddha	Carl Gustav Jung
Charles Caleb Colton	Charles Mathias, Jr.	Charlotte Bronte
Child Age 7	Christa McAuliffe	Chuang-Tzu
Clay P. Bedford	Clive Staples Lewis	Confucius
C. Wright Mills	David P(ierpont) Gardner	Derek Curtis Bok
Doris Lessing	Dorothea Lange	Dr. Samuel Johnson
Dwight David Eisenhower	Edgar Albert Guest	Edith Ann
Edith Hamilton	Edmund Burke	Edward Everett
Edward Morgan Forster	Elbert Hubbard	Eldridge Cleaver
Ellen Gilcrist	Elliot Wayne Eisner	Epictetus
Erich Fromm	Ernest Dimnet	Ernest Leroy Boyer
Ernest Miller Hemingway	E(dward) E(stlin) Cummings	E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
Fran Lebowitz	Francis Keppel	Gail
Galileo Galilei	Geoffrey Holder	George Burns
George Eliot	George Santayana	George Lorimer
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Goldie Hawn
Grayson Kirk	Heinrich Heine	Helen Adams Keller
Henri-Frédéric Amiel	Henry Anatole Grunwald	Henry Brooks Adams
Henry Louis Mencken	Henry Peter Brougham	Henry St. John Bolingbroke
Herbert Clark Hoover	Horace Mann	Ignacio Estrada
Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jacques Martin Barzun	James Abram Garfield
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	James Truslow Adams	Jerome Seymour Bruner
Joel H. Hildebrand	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Keats
John Anthony Ciardi	John Burroughs	John Calvin
John Cotton Dana	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Holt
John W(illiam) Gardner	Joseph Addison	Joseph Joubert
J(ohn) Edgar Hoover	Kahlil Gibran	Karl Kraus
Kurt Herbert Alder	Kwan-Tzu	Lady Nancy Astor
Larry Hawkins	Lawrence Kubie	Lawrence Peter Berra
Leonardo da Vinci	Leon Lessinger	Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca
Louis A. Berman	Louis Dembitz Brandeis	Lyndon Baines Johnson
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes	Marcus Aelius Aurelius	Marcus Tullius Cicero
Maria Montessori	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo	Mark Twain
Mark McGee	Martin Luther	Mary Ingraham Bunting
Matthew Arnold	Maya Angelou	Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides	Muhammad Ali
Nadia Boulanger	Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela	Noam Chomsky
Norman Cousins	Otto Kleppner	Paul Anderson
Paul E. Gray	Paul Karl Feyerabend	Peter Cochrane
Peter F(erdinand) Drucker	Peter Marshall	Phyllis
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Richard David Bach	Richard Fenyman
Robert Edward Lee	Robert Francis Kennedy	Robert Lee Frost
Robert Maynard Hutchins	Ron Dart	Russell Greene
Russell Hoban	R. J. Baughan	Saint Thomas Aquinas
Sandra Cisneros	Saul Bellow	Saying Folk
Shirley Mount Hufstedler	Simondes of Ceos	Sir James Matthew Barrie
Sir John Lubbock	Smiley Blanton	Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Lindquist	Stephen Neill	Susanna Moodie
S. Barry Lipkin	Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Carruthers
Thomas Henry Huxley	Timothy Leary	Truman Capote
Tryon Edwards	Ulysses S. Grant	Vartan Gregorian
Vernon Law	Victor Hugo	Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
Walter Bagehot	Walter Savage Landor	Walt(er) Elias Disney
Warren G. Bennis	Wayne Knight	William Hazlitt
William Jennings Bryan	William Adams	William Ellery Channing
William James "Will" Durant	William John Bennett	William Ralph Inge
William Torrey Harris	Wilson Mizner	Woody Allen
(George) Norman Douglas	(John) Calvin Coolidge	(Louis) Hector Berlioz
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