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Other quotes by Albert Einstein.
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

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Other quotes by Albert Einstein.
"The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province."

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Other quotes by Henry Adams.
"A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops."

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Other quotes by James Truslow Adams.
"There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."

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Other quotes by William Adams.
"My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it."

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Other quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott.
"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple."

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Other quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott.
"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence."

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Other quotes by Aeschylus.
"Time as he grows old teaches many lessons."

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Other quotes by Aeschylus.
"Time as he grows old teaches all things."

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Other quotes by Edith Ann.
"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework."

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Other quotes by Poul Anderson.
"Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt."

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Other quotes by Saint Thomas Aquinas.
"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."

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Other quotes by Athenus.
"For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own."

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Other quotes by Aristophenes.
"You cannot teach a crab to walk straight."

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Other quotes by Matthew Arnold.
"...what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most."

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Other quotes by Marcus Aelius Aurelius.
"Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them."

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Other quotes by R. J. Baughan.
"We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are...Men do not really live for honors or for pay their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself."

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Other quotes by Bill Beattie.
"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."

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Other quotes by Clay P. Bedford.
"You can teach a student a lesson for a day but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives."

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Other quotes by Hector Berlioz.
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."

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Other quotes by Saul Bellow.
"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things."

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Other quotes by William John Bennett.
"The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed."

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Other quotes by Louis A. Berman.
"A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism."

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Other quotes by Henry St. John Bolingbroke.
"History is philosophy teaching by examples."

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Other quotes by Nadia Boulanger.
"Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult."

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Other quotes by Ernest Leroy Boyer.
"A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130."

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"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."

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Other quotes by James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr..
"It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever."

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Other quotes by Simondes of Ceos.
"The city is the teacher of the man."

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Other quotes by Child Age 7.
"I've learned that I like my teacher because she cries when we sing Silent Night."

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Other quotes by John Anthony Ciardi.
"It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young men of this mealy generation the courage of their confusion."

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Other quotes by Peter Cochrane.
"Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live."

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Other quotes by Eldridge Cleaver.
"I don't think you have to teach people how to be human. I think you have to teach them how to stop being inhumane."

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Other quotes by Quintus Septimius Tertullianus.
"Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading."

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Other quotes by e e cummings.
"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance."

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Other quotes by John Cotton Dana.
"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn."

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Other quotes by Ron Dart.
"The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men."

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"We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up."

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Other quotes by Abba Eban.
"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives."

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Other quotes by Tryon Edwards.
"To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully."

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Other quotes by Tryon Edwards.
"If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others."

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Other quotes by Elliot Wayne Eisner.
"We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized."

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Other quotes by Ignacio Estrada.
"If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn."

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Other quotes by Saying Folk.
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig."

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Other quotes by Edward Morgan Forster.
"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon."

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Other quotes by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
"If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children."

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Other quotes by Ellen Gilcrist.
"We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing."

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Other quotes by Gail.
"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater."

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Other quotes by Edgar Albert Guest.
"The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach."

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Other quotes by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts.
"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."

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Other quotes by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts.
"If you ever teach a yodeling class, probably the hardest thing is to keep the students from just trying to yodel right off. You see, we BUILD to that."

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Other quotes by Larry Hawkins.
"We need programs that will teach athletes how to spell 'jump shot' rather than how to shoot it."

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Other quotes by Goldie Hawn.
"I must say the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth."

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Other quotes by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
"What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it."

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Other quotes by Heraclitus.
"Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise."

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Other quotes by Heraclitus.
"Much learning does not teach understanding."

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Other quotes by Russell Hoban.
"If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time."

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Other quotes by Shirley Mount Hufstedler.
"The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society."

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Other quotes by Saint Jerome.
"The scars of others should teach us caution."

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Other quotes by Carl Gustav Jung.
"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."

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Other quotes by Otto Kleppner.
"The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate."

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Other quotes by Dorothea Lange.
"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera."

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Other quotes by Kwan-Tzu.
"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."

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Other quotes by Vernon Law.
"Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson."

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Other quotes by Bruce Lee.
"A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence."

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Other quotes by S. Barry Lipkin.
"Travel is educational it teaches you how to get rid of money in a hurry."

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Other quotes by Leon Lessinger.
"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."

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Other quotes by Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh.
"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable."

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Other quotes by Sir John Lubbock.
"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."

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Other quotes by Stanley Lindquist.
"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."

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Other quotes by Martin Luther.
"A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight."

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Other quotes by Horace Mann.
"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron."

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Other quotes by Andre Malraux.
"The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man."

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Other quotes by Mark McGee.
"What should we emphasize in our teaching We learn much from Paul's letters to Timothy and Titus. Paul mentored each and sent them out to the churches to encourage and instruct God's Children of Grace. Notice how often Paul uses the words 'command,' 'warn,' and 'remind' in his letters to Timothy and Titus. God wants us to be loving and gentle in the way we teach His children, but He also wants us to be strong, precise and decisive in what we declare. We are not 'asking' Christians to obey God's Word. We are 'telling' them what God commands. We have no special power in ourselves, but when we preach God's Word we have the 'Power' of God behind us Our preaching and teaching should be in the 'Power and Strength' of God. He gave us the responsibility and authority to declare His Word. We do it humbly, but we do it."

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Other quotes by Mark McGee.
"Paul's evangelistic mission was different from the Kingdom Apostles, but in many ways the same. The Kingdom Apostles preached Jesus the Messiah, ready to return to Israel and set up His Messianic Kingdom. From Israel, the Apostles, with Christ on David's Throne, were to go into all the world and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to observe everything Christ had commanded them. They would do that because all authority in heaven and on earth had been given to Christ. As we all know, that did not happen. It will happen in the future, but it has not yet happened. What has happened is that Christ revealed a Mystery through His Special Apostle Paul."

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Other quotes by Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu.
"The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them."

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Other quotes by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne.
"He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live."

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Other quotes by Susanna Moodie.
"Ah, Hope what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow."

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Other quotes by 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."

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Other quotes by Maria Montessori.
"We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master."

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Other quotes by Stephen Neill.
"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."

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Other quotes by Stephen Neill.
"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."

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Other quotes by Flannery O'Connor.
"There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."

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"Only dreamers can teach us to soar."

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Other quotes by James A. Perkins.
"The acquisition of knowledge is the mission of research, the transmission of knowledge is the mission of teaching and the application of knowledge is the mission of public service."

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"History balances the frustration of how far we have to go with the satisfaction of how far we have come. It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time."

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Other quotes by Biblical Proverb.
"Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee."

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"No need to teach an eagle to fly."

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Other quotes by Nathan M. Pusey.
"The teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning."

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"By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn."

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Other quotes by John A. Rassias.
"Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities."

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Other quotes by Lee Iacocca.
"In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else."

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Other quotes by Giovanni Ruffini.
"The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself."

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Other quotes by Salman Rushdie.
"Our lives teach us who we are."

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Other quotes by Paul Sadler.
"As members of the Body of Christ, each of us have been endowed with a special measure of grace to use in His service. Paul develops this theme in Romans where he states 'For as we have many members in one Body, and all members have not the same office So we, being many, are one Body in Christ, and ever one members one of another. Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether...ministry, let us wait on our ministering or he that teacheth, on teaching Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity he that ruleth, with diligence he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness."

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"Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that."

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Other quotes by Paul Sadler.
"Why Paul God already had called twelve apostles of the kingdom Although Judas had fallen in transgression, the seat of his apostolic office was filled by Matthias preceding the day of Pentecost. Insofar as Paul was unconverted at the time, he could not have possibly fulfilled the qualificatios set down by the Holy Spirit to be numbered with the twelve (Acts 121-26). Of course, there are many dispensationalists who would agree with this interpretation, but teach that God ordained Paul to be the thirteenth apostle of the kingdom. Perhaps you have heard the saying, 'They jumped out of the frying pan into the fire.' In other words, we have gone from bad to worse, which is certainly the case with this view. the number twelve is stamped throughout the pages of prophecy, thus eliminating the possibility of a thirteenth apostolic office (Matt. 1928 cf. Rev. 12-21). What logical explanation then can we give for Paul's apostleship Before the foundation of the world, God foreordained that He would raise up a new apostle to reveal His eternal purpose for the parenthetical age of Grace in which we now live. Hence, Paul says 'But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by His grace, to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the heathen Gentiles...' (Gal. 115.16). When God temporarily rolled up the building plans of prophecy and placed them aside, He made known a secret set of plans. With this program came a completely new set of blueprints. According to the counsel of His will, He had predetermined to call Paul as the masterbuilder of the project. So then, the instructions for our building program are found in Paul's epistles. Little wonder the apostles says 'I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.' (1 Cor. 310). It is essential to use Pauline constructio materials (grace doctrines), simply because someday soon the Building Inspector will examine our workmanship to determine if we followed His codes."

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Other quotes by Sir George Savile.
"The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead."

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Other quotes by Angela Schwindt.
"While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about."

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Other quotes by Donald G. Smith.
"The people who teach us that it is wrong to be skeptical are themselves the reasons that we should be skeptical."

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Other quotes by J. Michael Straczynski.
"No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free."

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Other quotes by Bob Talbert.
"Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best."

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Other quotes by Elizabeth Taylor.
"It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting."

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Other quotes by Jimmy Townsend.
"Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single."

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Other quotes by Calvin Trillin.
"Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically."

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"Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all."

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"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function."

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Other quotes by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire.
"If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it."

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Other quotes by Denis Watley.
"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."

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Other quotes by Elie Wiesel.
"There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you."

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Other quotes by Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde.
"The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression."

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Other quotes by Mary J. Wilson.
"I'm never going to be a movie star. But then, in all probability, Liz Taylor is never going to teach first and second grade."

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Other quotes by Lois McMaster Bujold.
"Adversity does teach who your real friends are."

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"Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want."

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"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers."

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"Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes."

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Other quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
"I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe believe life it teaches better than book or orator."

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Other quotes by James A. Garfield.
"History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology."

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Other quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
"Our friends show us what we can do our enemies teach us what we must do."

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Other quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
"What government is the best That which teaches us to govern ourselves."

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Other quotes by W. L. George.
"Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies."

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Other quotes by Elain Heffner.
"The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children."

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Other quotes by Thomas Herrick.
"To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside Who fears to ask, doth teach to be deny'd."

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Other quotes by Vernon Sanders Law.
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."

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Other quotes by Dan Quayle.
"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children."

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Other quotes by J. K. Rowling.
"His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof."

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Other quotes by Lydia Sigourney.
"In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe."

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Other quotes by Peretz Smolenskin.
"There are many fine ideals which are not realisable, and yet we do not refrain from teaching them."

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Other quotes by W. C. Sellar.
"For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn--much."

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Other quotes by Saint Bernard.
"You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters."

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Other quotes by Billy Madison.
"Billy Hey I'm trying to score points with the teacher today. DON'T SCREW IT UP. 3rd Grader I dare you to touch her boobs. Billy Touch her boobs That's assault brotha...... Ya double dare me"

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Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.
"I'm not a teacher only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead-ahead of myself as well as you."

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Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches."

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Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.
"The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it."

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Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"The years teach much which the days never knew."

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Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.
"The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it."

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Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching."

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"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

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Other quotes by La Rochefoucauld.
"Ah, Hope what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow."

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"Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary."

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"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers."

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"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."

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"I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person."

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"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre."

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"Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still."

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"Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver."

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"Our friends show us what we can do our enemies teach us what we must do."

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"What government is the best That which teaches us to govern ourselves."

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"I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe believe life it teaches better than book or orator."

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"The ideal condition Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct But since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach."

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"If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself."

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"To teach is to learn twice."

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"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding."

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"Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example."

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"Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time."

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"To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble."

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"It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others--and less trouble. - speech, 1906"

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"Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth ... Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common Every single one was a liar."

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"Jacoby I'm gonna teach you the meaning of pain. Elizabeth You like pain Try wearing a corset."

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"I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers."

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"If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing."

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"My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it."

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"Whoever cares to learn will always find a teacher."

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"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."

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"We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain."

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"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."

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"Learning is finding out what you already know, Doing is demonstrating that you know it, Teaching is reminding others that they know it as well as you do. We are all learners, doers, and teachers."

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"You teach best what you most need to learn."

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"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable."

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"No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide."

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"Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach."

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"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon."

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"The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money."

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"History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins."

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"People react to fear, not love- they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true."

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"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."

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"There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled."

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"High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make."

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"Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being and only suffering teaches him this."

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"Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral."

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"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."

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"Experience teaches only the teachable."

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"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."

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"What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' Children who are fit to proceed may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when 'I'm as good as you' has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented who are they to overtop their fellows And anyway, the teachers -- or should I say nurses -- will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men."

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"I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight silence would teach him the joys of sound."

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"When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light."

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"To know how to suggest is the art of teaching."

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"To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another."

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"Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself."

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"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."

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"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things."

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"Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt."

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"Economics Teacher In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the... Anyone Anyone... the Great Depression, passed the... Anyone Anyone The tariff bill The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act Which, anyone Raised or lowered... raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work Anyone Anyone know the effects It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression. Today we have a similar debate over this. Anyone know what this is Class Anyone Anyone Anyone seen this before The Laffer Curve. Anyone know what this says It says that at this point on the revenue curve, you will get exactly the same amount of revenue as at this point. This is very controversial. Does anyone know what Vice President Bush called this in 1980 Anyone Something-d-o-o economics. Voodoo economics."

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"Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself."

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"Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others."

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"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."

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"...since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned."

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"The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before."

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"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn."

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"A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching."

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"You cannot teach a man anything. you can only help him to find it for himself."

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"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so."

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"Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position."

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"It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young."

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"Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards -- the things we live by and teach our children -- are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings."

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"Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years."

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"I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this."

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"Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men."

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"If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract -- teach him to deduct."

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"When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings"

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"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life."

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"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

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"Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater."

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Other quotes by Albert Einstein.
"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."

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