"A man’s wit can be judged better by his questions than by his answers." ~~ Mishle Yehoshua
"Respect an old man who has lost his learning: remember that the fragments of the Tablets broken by Moses were preserved alongside the new." ~~ Talmud: Berakot 8b
"When you are asked a question and do not know what to answer, be not ashamed to say: “I know not!”" ~~ Mivchar Hapeninim
"Arrange the ordinances in order, like a set table." ~~ Akiba, Mekilta
"Who withholds a law from his pupil robs him of his inheritance." ~~ Rab (Abba Arika)
"A teacher should give his pupil opportunity for independent practice without suggestions from himself, and thus set upon him the stamp of indelible memory in its purest form." ~~ Philo
"No learning, no manners; no manners, no learning; no lore, no loaf." ~~ Avot 3:17
"A man may learn for seventy years and at the end die a fool." ~~ Yiddish Proverb
"If you see cities uprooted, know that it came about because they did not maintain teachers’ salaries." ~~ Simeon b. Yohai
"Jerusalem was destroyed just because school-children were kept from their classrooms." ~~ Talmud, Shabbat
"The prevailing pilosophy of education tends to discredit hard work." ~~ Abraham Flexner
"Moses ordained that Jews be addressed each holiday on the subject of that holiday, and he said to Israel: if you do this, it will be as if you established God’s sovereignty." ~~ Midrash Abkir, Yalkut Shimoni #408
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