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"An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."	Carl Gustav Jung
"Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson."	Vernon Law
"...what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most."	Matthew Arnold
"The education of a man is never completed until he dies."	Robert Edward Lee
"A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops."	Henry Brooks Adams
"The years teach much which the days never know."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."	Benjamin Franklin
"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
"A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130."	Ernest Leroy Boyer
"If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think it's okay to feed some bits of your friend to one of the vultures, to teach him to do some tricks. But ONLY if you're serious about adopting the vulture."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."	Victor Hugo
"Experience teaches only the teachable."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them."	Stanley Lindquist
"Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity."	Horace Mann
"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron."	Horace Mann
"We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master."	Maria Montessori
"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition."	Jacques Martin Barzun
"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
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."	Albert Einstein
"You cannot teach a man anything.; you can only help him to find it for himself."	Galileo Galilei
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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