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In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. (Quote by - Jacques Barzun)

If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate. (Quote by - Gloria Steinem)

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others. (Quote by - Tryon Edwards)

I who have set my heart on watching over the soul, in union with Good Thought, and as knowing the rewards of Mazda Ahura for our works, will, while I have power and strength, teach men to seek after Right. I have become an alien in a foreign land. (Quote by - Zoroaster)

O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain. (Quote by - Lord Byron)

Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching kids what counts is best. (Quote by - Bob Talbert)

Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training. (Quote by - Horace Mann)

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. (Quote by - Russell Greene)

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing. (Quote by - Sir James Matthew Barrie)

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. (Quote by - Edward Morgan Forster)

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education. (Quote by - Smiley Blanton)

When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. (Quote by - Woody Allen)

We need to teach people that the environment has a direct bearing on our own benefit. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. (Quote by - Aldous Leonard Huxley)

The beginning is the most important part of the work. (Quote by - Plato)

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. (Quote by - Warren G. Bennis)

The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery. (Quote by - Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy)

Much that passes for education ... is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least. (Quote by - David Pierpont Gardner)

One of my goals is to inspire people to be all that they can be and, hopefully, be a good example and teach some useful, interesting principles. (Quote by - Mark Victor Hansen)

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach. (Quote by - Peter F. Drucker)

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn--much. (Quote by - W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman)

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