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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."	John Holt
"No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him."	Herbert Clark Hoover
"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."	J(ohn) Edgar Hoover
"The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before."	Elbert Hubbard
"Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth."	Elbert Hubbard
"I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese."	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."	Shirley Mount Hufstedler
"Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education."	Victor Hugo
"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."	Victor Hugo
"We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it."	Robert Maynard Hutchins
"Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes ... different points of view."	Robert Maynard Hutchins
"There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism."	Robert Maynard Hutchins
"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."	Robert Maynard Hutchins
"The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they posses a really effective system of mind-manipulation. Under a scientific dictator, education will rea"	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"Experience teaches only the teachable."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"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."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself to do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a person's training begins, it is probably the last lesson a person learn thoroughly."	Thomas Henry Huxley
"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
"The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values."	William Ralph Inge
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Adolf Hitler	Alben William Barkley	Albert Einstein
Aldous Leonard Huxley	Alec Bourne	Alexander Hamilton
Alexandre Dumas	Alvin Barkley	Amos Bronson Alcott
Anatole France	Andre Malraux	Anna James
Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh	Aristophenes	Aristotle
Athenæus	Author Unknown	A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti
A. Whitney Brown	Baltasar Gracian	Barbara Colorose
Barnaby C. Keeney	Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu	Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Franklin	Benjamin Jowett	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
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 Santayana	George Lorimer
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Goldie Hawn
Grayson Kirk	Heinrich Heine	Helen Keller
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 Twain	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	Orson Welles
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 Frost
Robert G. Ingersoll	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
Will Durant	Will Rogers	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
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