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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
Teaching

"The knowledge exists by which universal happiness can be secured; the chief obstacle to its utilization for that purpose is the teaching of religion. Religion prevents our children from having a rational education; religion prevents us from removing the fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us from teaching the ethic of scientific cooperation in place of the old fierce doctrines of sin and punishment. It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion."

Children War Teaching
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Muhammad Asad Philosopher, Writer
Teaching

"We (Muslims) have no right, in our present misery, to boast of past glories. But we must realise that it was the negligence of the Muslims - and not any deficiency in the teachings of Islam - that caused our present decay."

Past Teaching Islam
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Albert Einstein Physicist
Teaching

"Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs."

Inspirational Spiritual Teaching
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Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher
Teaching

"Long is the night for the sleepless. Long is the road for the weary. Long is samsara (the cycle of continued rebirth) for the foolish, who have not recognised the true teaching."

Night Teaching Buddhist
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Howard Gardner Psychologist, Educator
Teaching

"Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system."

Children Reality Teaching
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
Teaching

"God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man. It is not like teaching a horse to jump better and better but like turning a horse into a winged creature."

Teaching Son Horse
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U.G. Krishnamurti Philosopher
Teaching

"My teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright. You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret, distort, garble, do what you like, even claim authorship, without my consent or the permission of anybody."

Want Use Teaching
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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
Teaching

"Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies. These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late."

Teaching Understanding Expression
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George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic
Teaching

"My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself."

Teaching Education Learning
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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
Teaching

"We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it."

Teacher Success Teaching
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Howard Gardner Psychologist, Educator
Teaching

"We've got to do fewer things in school. The greatest enemy of understanding is coverage... You've got to take enough time to get kids deeply involved in something so they can think about it in lots of different ways and apply it."

School Teaching Learning
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