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"Nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable? Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic? The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter."	Henry Anatole Grunwald
"The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach."	Edgar Albert Guest
"To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated."	Edith Hamilton
"If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think it's okay to feed some bits of your friend to one of the vultures, to teach him to do some tricks. But ONLY if you're serious about adopting the vulture."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"If you ever teach a yodeling class, probably the hardest thing is to keep the students from just trying to yodel right off. You see, we BUILD to that."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"If you had a school for professional fireworks people, I don't think you could cover fuses in just one class. It's just too rich a subject."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"I hope in the future Americans are thought of as a warlike, vicious people, because I bet a lot of high schools would pick 'Americans' as their mascot."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role."	William Torrey Harris
"We need programs that will teach athletes how to spell 'jump shot' rather than how to shoot it."	Larry Hawkins
"I must say the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth."	Goldie Hawn
"I must say the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth."	Goldie Hawn
"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."	William Hazlitt
"What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it."	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"Experience is a good school, but the fees are high."	Heinrich Heine
"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."	Ernest Miller Hemingway
"The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. ... Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to be meddled with by amateur psychiatrists whose patterns for a 'wholesome personality' are inevitably their own."	Joel H. Hildebrand
"We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education ... We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse."	E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so."	Adolf Hitler
"If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time."	Russell Hoban
"Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him."	Geoffrey Holder
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James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	James Truslow Adams	Jerome Seymour Bruner
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