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"The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed."	William John Bennett
"The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people."	William John Bennett
"Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary."	Warren G. Bennis
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."	(Louis) Hector Berlioz
"A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism."	Louis A. Berman
"I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did."	Lawrence Peter Berra
"A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education."	Smiley Blanton
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."	Derek Curtis Bok
"History is philosophy teaching by examples."	Henry St. John Bolingbroke
"Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult."	Nadia Boulanger
"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated."	Alec Bourne
"A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130."	Ernest Leroy Boyer
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."	Louis Dembitz Brandeis
"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks."	Charlotte Bronte
"Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."	Henry Peter Brougham
"Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait."	A. Whitney Brown
"The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness."	Jerome Seymour Bruner
"Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others."	William Jennings Bryan
"Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide."	Buddha
"When her last child is off to school, we don't want the talented woman wasting her time in work far below her capacity. We want her to come out running."	Mary Ingraham Bunting
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Bradley Miller	Bruce Lee	Buddha
Carl Gustav Jung	Charles Caleb Colton	Charles Mathias, Jr.
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Chuang-Tzu	Clay P. Bedford	Clive Staples Lewis
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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 Lorimer
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Goldie Hawn
Grayson Kirk	Heinrich Heine	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 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
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 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	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
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