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"He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live."	Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
"The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity."	Maria Montessori
"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
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig."	Saying Folk
"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."	Kahlil Gibran
"The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk."	Alben William Barkley
"Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way."	Noam Chomsky
"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
"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
"We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides."	Saint Thomas Aquinas
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."	Albert Einstein
"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
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."	Derek Curtis Bok
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."	(John) Calvin Coolidge
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."	Albert Einstein
"Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt."	Paul Anderson
"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things."	Saul Bellow
"Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man."	Norman Cousins
"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."	Anatole France
"The good teacher ... discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them by the stimulating influence of the inspiration that he can impart. The true leader makes his followers twice the men they were before."	Stephen Neill
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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
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