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Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
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Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.
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We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives
teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling
them to sit down and shut up.
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You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way.
As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me
into my present vocation in life, comedy.
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The world exists only because of the innocent breath of schoolchildren.
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A scholar should always don modest garb, not too costly or ornate, so that people should not stare at him,
and not too shabby, lest he be mocked.
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Let a father wed his daughter to a scholar,
even if he spend all his money on her dowry!
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What is the true national education? That which makes children absorb the national spirit unconsciously.
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Education without vision is like a present without a future.
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Education is an unfinished symphony.
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A man may learn for seventy years and at the end die a fool.
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Experience teaches us that experience does not.
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Grammar is to speech what salt is to food,
it should be in the right dose.
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Jerusalem was destroyed just because school-children were kept from their classrooms.
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It is better to know well than to know much.
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Good manners mean more than learning.
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The more schooling, the more wisdom.
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The best of poems is that which men of intelligence are content with and the people understand.
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A parable without a moral is like a legless body.
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Through a proverb one delves deeply into things.
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The pointed proverb is like a diamond,
it sends out light and it also cuts.
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No master is jealous of his pupil.
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Who quarrels with his teacher
might as well quarrel with the Holy Presence.
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The question put by a wise man is half the answer.
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The finest quality of Man is asking questions.