"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
"Just as a man does not blush to ask his friend to give him water, so he should not be ashamed to ask a younger man to teach him Torah." ~~ Tanchuma
"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. " ~~ Henry Kissinger
"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. " ~~ Phyllis Diller
"When I see no way of teaching a truth but one that will please one intelligent man but will offend ten thousand fools, I address myself to the one, and ignore the censure of the thousands." ~~ Maimonides
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