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"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts." Henry Brooks Adams 4.1757 average rating  
"A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops." Henry Brooks Adams 4.6908 average rating  
"There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live." James Truslow Adams 4.5772 average rating  
"My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it." William Adams 4.2647 average rating  
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul." Joseph Addison 4.7432 average rating  
"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable." Joseph Addison 4.3750 average rating  
"Time as he grows old teaches many lessons." Æschylus 4.4500 average rating  
"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple." Amos Bronson Alcott 4.3200 average rating  
"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other." Kurt Herbert Alder 4.0000 average rating  
"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." Muhammad Ali 4.7767 average rating  
"I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers." Woody Allen 4.6731 average rating  
"When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me." Woody Allen 4.3636 average rating  
"To know how to suggest is the art of teaching." Henri-Frédéric Amiel 4.4000 average rating  
"Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt." Paul Anderson 4.9000 average rating  
"The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education." Maya Angelou 4.7778 average rating  
"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework." Edith Ann 4.7745 average rating  
"We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides." Saint Thomas Aquinas 4.7800 average rating  
"You cannot teach a crab to walk straight." Aristophenes 4.5000 average rating  
"Education is the best provision for old age." Aristotle 4.5303 average rating  
"Wit is educated insolence." Aristotle 4.5714 average rating  
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