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Jean Guéhenno, given name Marcel-Jules-Marie Guéhenno

To teach people to read without teaching them not to believe everything they read is only to prepare them for a new slavery.

People | Slavery | Teach | Wisdom |

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Moses Harvey

Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only as far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit.

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Bob Talbert

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.

Wisdom |

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Benjamin Ricketson Tucker

Civilization consists in teaching men to govern themselves.

Civilization | Men | Wisdom | Govern |

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Goldie Hawn, fully Goldie Jeanne Hawn

We humans have the capacity to change the world with acts of love and kindness. Let’s start by teaching our children the importance of compassion.

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Abraham Joshua Heschel

To understand the teaching of the Bible, one must accept its premise that time has a meaning which is at least equal to that of space; that time has a significance and sovereignty of its own.

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W. E. H. Lecky, fully William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Religions, considered as moral teachers, are realized and effective only when their moral teaching is in conformity with the teaching of their age.

Age | Conformity |

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Leo Tolstoy, aka Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy or Tolstoi

A man following Christ’s teaching is like a man carrying a lantern before him at the end of a pole. The light is ever before him, and ever impels him to follow it, by continually lighting up fresh ground and attracting him onward.

Light | Man | Following |

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Kenneth Eble, fully Kenneth Eugene Eble

If there is no place for pleasure in teaching, surely our Teaching has failed us altogether.

Pleasure |

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W. W. Sawyer, fully Walter Warwick Sawyer

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

Imagination | Words |

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Anita Roddick

Let's stop teaching our children to fear change and to protect the status quo. Let's teach them to inquire and to debate, to ask questions until they hear answers. The best way to do that is to change traditional schooling.

Change | Children | Fear | Teach |

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Alvin Toffler

The responsibility for change… lies with us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical. This means fighting off the idea-assassins who rush forward to kill any new suggestion on grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, not matter how absurd, oppressive, or unworkable it may be. It means fighting for freedom of expression – the right of people to voice their ideas, even if heretical.

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Amos Bronson Alcott

Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.

Friend | Silence | Time | Wisdom |

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