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"At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me."	Barnaby C. Keeney
"Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men."	Dr. Samuel Johnson
"Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide."	Buddha
"By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action."	Albert Einstein
"Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble."	Stanley Kubrick
"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves."	Abbe Dimnet
"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves."	Ernest Dimnet
"Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education."	Victor Hugo
"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"	John Keats
"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books."	Sir John Lubbock
"Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity."	Horace Mann
"Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him."	Geoffrey Holder
"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army."	Edward Everett
"Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes ... different points of view."	Robert Maynard Hutchins
"Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance."	William James "Will" Durant
"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
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."	Robert Lee Frost
"Education is the best provision for old age."	Aristotle
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."	Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
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Alvin Barkley	Amos Bronson Alcott	Anatole France
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
Bertrand Russell	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 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 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	Æschylus