"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. " ~~ Neil Simon
"All education starts with forbidding." ~~ Rabbi Leo Baeck
"No pupil will attend to his lessons property unless he respects his teacher." ~~ Achad Ha’am
"People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new Mercedes? " ~~ Neil Simon
"A town without schoolchildren is doomed to destruction." ~~ Talmud, Shabbat
"Teach your children letters, that they may have understanding all their life, reading unceasingly the law of God." ~~ Apocrypha: Patriarchs, Levi
"The critic must be like a grinding-stone: to grind and not to cut. " ~~ Moshe Ben Ezra
"Study is worth as much as ritual sacrifice." ~~ (adapted from) Talmud, Menahot 110a
"Happy is the man whose deeds are greater than his learning." ~~ Midrash Eliyahu R.
"No master is jealous of his pupil." ~~ Psikta Zotarti
"A man’s wit can be judged better by his questions than by his answers." ~~ Mishle Yehoshua
"When you are asked a question and do not know what to answer, be not ashamed to say: “I know not!”" ~~ Mivchar Hapeninim
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