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If you had a school for professional fireworks people, I don't think you could cover fuses in just one class. It's just too rich a subject. (Quote by - Jack Handey)

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. (Quote by - Alexandre Dumas)

A high-school teacher, afer all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it. (Quote by - Emile Capouya)

We learn by teaching. (Quote by - Proverb)

Experience is a good school, but the fees are high. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)

Knowledge exists to be imparted. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. (Quote by - Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

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. (Quote by - C. Wright Mills)

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others. (Quote by - William Jennings Bryan)

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

Muhammad teaches us the knowledge of our own selves, and of our own people. He cleans us up--morally, mentally and spiritually (Quote by - Malcolm X)

I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese. (Quote by - Shirley Mount Hufstedler)

A child miseducated is a child lost. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)

Wit is educated insolence. (Quote by - Aristotle)

Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind. (Quote by - Horace)

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes ... different points of view. (Quote by - Robert Maynard Hutchins)

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. (Quote by - Otto Kleppner)

Next in importance to Freedom and Justice is popular education, without which neither Freedom nor Justice can be permanently maintained. (Quote by - James Abram Garfield)

Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding. (Quote by - William Arthur Ward)

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. (Quote by - Phyllis)

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. (Quote by - Alec Bourne)

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. (Quote by - Susanna Moodie)

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait. (Quote by - A. Whitney Brown)

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. (Quote by - Louis Hector Berlioz)

There is truly a gospel in all this, teaching us never to forget that though the outer side of life may seem dull and heavy, there is always the Divine fire glowing within. (Quote by - C.W. Leadbeater)

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