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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 incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them."	Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu
"The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity."	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."	Maria Montessori
"We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master."	Maria Montessori
"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."	Susanna Moodie
"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
"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
"Education is the cheap defence of nations."	Edmund Burke
"Education is the transmission of civilization."	Will Durant
"Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog."	Mark Twain
"I never let schooling interfere with my education."	Mark Twain
"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."	Will Rogers
"The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living."	Will Rogers
"It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers."	Author Unknown
"An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life."	Author Unknown
"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"	Erich Fromm
"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."	Robert G. Ingersoll
"Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage."	Joseph Addison
"Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends."	Benjamin Disraeli
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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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