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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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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
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Saul Bellow	Saying Folk	Shirley Mount Hufstedler
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Stephen Neill	Susanna Moodie	S. Barry Lipkin
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