"When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense."
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"Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care."
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"The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before."
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"For teachers, getting annual test scores several months after taking the test and in most cases long after the students have departed for the summer sends a message: Here's the data that would have helped you improve your teaching based on the needs of these students if you would have had it in time, but since it's late and there's nothing you can do about it, we'll just release it to the newspapers so they can editorialize again about how bad our schools are."
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"We have no proof that Socrates ever existed. We only know from witnesses to his life that he did. Like Jesus, he never wrote anything down. It doesn't matter to me whether he did or not exist because we have his teachings, his method of thinking, and his extreme intellectual and moral courage."
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"Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims for itself, invokes prostrate submission or "surrender" as a maxim to its adherents, and demands deference and respect from nonbelievers into the bargain. There is nothing-absolutely nothing-in its teachings that can even begin to justify such arrogance and presumption."
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"No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value."
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"But we are learning from the teaching and example of Jesus that life itself is a religion, that nothing is more sacred than a human being, that the end of all right institutions, whether the home or the church or an educational establishment, or a government, is the development of the human soul."
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"Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing."
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"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
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"If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it."
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"I'm sure that writing isn't a craft, that is, something for which you learn the skills and go on turning out. It must come from some deep impulse, deep inspiration. That can't be taught, it can't be what you use in teaching."
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"Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and absurd. He should be arrested for the sole purpose of teaching him how to earn a living by his work."
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"Yet the Teaching is simple. Do what is right. Be pure. At the end of the way is freedom."
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"More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see the Divine and are therefore fitted to interpret correctly the various languages spoken by all forms of nature about us."
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"Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings."
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"The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness."
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"The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience."
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"The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living."
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"It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach."
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