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Peter Lee Artist
Teaching

"The reason for teaching history is not that it changes society, but that it changes pupils; it changes what they see in the world, and how they see it.... To say someone has learnt history is to say something very wide ranging about the way in which he or she is likely to make sense of the world. History offers a way of seeing almost any substantive issue in human affairs, subject to certain procedures and standards, whatever feelings one may have."

Feelings Issues Teaching
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Calvin Coolidge Politician
Teaching

"The doctrine of the Declaration of Independence predicated upon the glory of man and the corresponding duty to society that the rights of citizens ought to be protected with every power and resource of the state, and a government that does any less is false to the teachings of that great document - false to the name American."

Men Names Teaching
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Elias Hicks Quaker Minister
Teaching

"...the more strictly and faithfully every man and woman lives up to the guidance and teaching of this Inward Anointing - and never turns aside to the right hand or left for the precepts and traditions of men - the more instruction and help they afford one another."

Men Hands Teaching
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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
Teaching

"I don't know the real answer, my answer to anything which is essentially human relations is education. Whatever the answer is, education must be its measured component and if you try to educate with generosity not with triumphalism I think sometimes it works, especially young people, that's why I teach, I've been teaching all my life."

Thinking Real Teaching
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Charles Darwin Naturalist, Geologist
Teaching

"...one doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view should teach one profound humility, one deserves no credit for anything...nor ought one to blame others."

Views Teaching Humility
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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
Teaching

"It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that all its mildness and rationalism is due to the teaching of men who in their own day were persecuted by all orthodox Christians."

Men Christian Teaching
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Albert Schweitzer Philosopher, Theologian
Teaching

"Where possible Paul avoids quoting the teaching of Jesus, in fact even mentioning it. If we had to rely on Paul, we should not know that Jesus taught in parables, had delivered the sermon on the mount, and had taught His disciples the 'Our Father.' Even where they are specially relevant, Paul passes over the words of the Lord."

Father Jesus Teaching
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Aristotle Philosopher
Teaching

"But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for all, and that the responsibility for it must be a public one, not the private affair which it now is, each man looking after his own children and teaching them privately whatever private curriculum he thinks they ought to study."

Children Responsibility Teaching
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Edmund Burke Philosopher, Politician
Teaching

"Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind is compelled to assent when they are proposed, are not always as present to us as they ought to be."

Men Ideas Teaching
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Yael Cohen Entrepreneur
Teaching

"Ninety percent of cancers are curable in stage one. We spend billions of dollars and over 40 years searching for a cure, and we're not really that close. So why aren't we teaching people the only cure we have now? Early detection is one sh**ty year, versus the rest of your life."

Years Teaching Cancer
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Walt Disney Animator, Film Producer
Teaching

"I do not want to make teaching films. If I did, I would create a separate organization. It is not higher education that interests me so much as general mass education."

Want Teaching Organization
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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker
Teaching

"Quantum physics is teaching us that particles themselves don't create particles. It's what Jesus said 2,000 years ago, that it's the Spirit that gives life and that you don't get particles from more particles."

Years Jesus Teaching
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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer
Teaching

"Culturally speaking, I was raised in a Jewish household. In addition to the religious side of it, I was taught respect for books and learning and the higher professions like medicine and law and teaching."

Book Religious Teaching
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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Teaching

"Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers led by Paul, the first great corrupter of the teaching of Jesus."

Firsts Jesus Teaching
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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Teaching

"It is time enough, for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere [in the propagation of religious teachings] when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order."

Government Religious Teaching
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Timothy Keller Pastor, Author
Teaching

"To stay away from Christianity because part of the Bible’s teaching is offensive to you assumes that if there is a God he wouldn’t have any views that upset you. Does that belief make sense? If you don’t trust the Bible enough to let it challenge and correct your thinking, how could you ever have a personal relationship with God? In any truly personal relationship, the other person has to be able to contradict you."

Thinking Views Teaching
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