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The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy._x000D__x000D_Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld_x000D__x000D_ That awareness is my teaching. Never fight with greed, ego, anger, jealousy, hatred - all those enemies that the religions have been telling you, 'Fight with them, crush them, kill them. You cannot kill them, you cannot crush them, you cannot fight with them; all that you can do is just be aware of them.' And the moment you are aware, they are gone. In the light, the darkness simply disappears.

Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creatingfuture dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.

A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.

Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a condition of things so strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be regulated by considerations connected with itself, and itself alone.

History teaches everything, even the future.

That was the most offensive thing I've ever seen in 20 years of teaching - and that includes an elementary school production of hair.

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

LET A MAN THINK AND CARE ever so little about God, he does not therefore exist without God. God is here with him, upholding, warming, delighting, teaching him-making life a good thing to him. God gives him himself, though the man knows it not.

Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

When one teaches, two learn.

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 can be engaged in.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.

Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.