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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."	John W(illiam) Gardner
"The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else."	John W(illiam) Gardner
"Next in importance to Freedom and Justice is popular education, without which neither Freedom nor Justice can be permanently maintained."	James Abram Garfield
"Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building."	A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti
"A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching."	A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti
"Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process."	A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti
"A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching."	A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti
"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."	Kahlil Gibran
"Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow."	Kahlil Gibran
"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."	Ellen Gilcrist
"The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community-these are the most vital things education must try to produce."	Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater."	Gail
"Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better than book or orator."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled."	Baltasar Gracian
"Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separate."	Ulysses S. Grant
"The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education."	Paul E. Gray
"The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving."	Russell Greene
"It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour."	Vartan Gregorian
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Anatole France	Andre Malraux	Anna James
Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh	Aristophenes	Aristotle
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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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