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"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
"Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know' and thou shalt progress." Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still." George Eliot 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work." Peter Marshall 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building." A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti 4.6000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar." Bradley Miller 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process." A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti 4.5000 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
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach." Aldous Leonard Huxley 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"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
"The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving." Russell Greene 1.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values." William Ralph Inge 4.3333 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
"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
"The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man." C. Wright Mills 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn." Marcus Tullius Cicero 4.1429 average rating Rate this Quote
"The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation." Stephen Neill 5.0000 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
"The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk." Alben William Barkley 4.9444 average rating Rate this Quote
"The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk." Alvin Barkley 3.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
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