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"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other." Edmund Burke 3.8571 average rating Rate this Quote
"Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years." George Burns 3.7857 average rating Rate this Quote
"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." John Burroughs 4.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress." John Calvin 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory." Truman Capote 3.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary." Thomas Carruthers 4.5417 average rating Rate this Quote
"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." James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The city is the teacher of the man." Simondes of Ceos Rate this Quote
"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." William Ellery Channing 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated." Gilbert Keith Chesterton 3.5833 average rating Rate this Quote
"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." Gilbert Keith Chesterton 4.1250 average rating Rate this Quote
"I've learned that I like my teacher because she cries when we sing Silent Night." Child Age 7 4.6000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way." Noam Chomsky 4.9444 average rating Rate this Quote
"Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education." Chuang-Tzu 4.4000 average rating Rate this Quote
"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." John Anthony Ciardi 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability." Marcus Tullius Cicero 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn." Marcus Tullius Cicero 4.1429 average rating Rate this Quote
"I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog." Sandra Cisneros 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"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." Eldridge Cleaver 4.8000 average rating Rate this Quote
"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." Peter Cochrane 3.6250 average rating Rate this Quote
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