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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children. (Quote by - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi)

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. (Quote by - Edward Estlin Cummings)

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. (Quote by - William Adams)

When I came to the West, I realized there was much hunger for spiritual teachings, but no environment for spirituality. (Quote by - Sogyal Rinpoche)

Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him. (Quote by - Geoffrey Holder)

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. (Quote by - Maria Montessori)

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines. (Quote by - Erich Fromm)

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully. (Quote by - Tryon Edwards)

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)

Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce Dubliners)

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain. (Quote by - Walter Savage Landor)

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. (Quote by - Abbe Dimnet)

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. (Quote by - Tryon Edwards)

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. (Quote by - Timothy Leary)

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching. (Quote by - Angelo Bartlett Giamatti)

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

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. (Quote by - Edgar Albert Guest)

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. (Quote by - Ellen Gilcrist)

A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation. (Quote by - Howard Crosby)

Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. (Quote by - James Anthony Froude)

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. (Quote by - Aristotle)

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. (Quote by - Paul Karl Feyerabend)

Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. (Quote by - George Norman Douglas)

We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized. (Quote by - Elliot Wayne Eisner)

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