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Famous quotes by Educators

EducatorsQuotes from educators illuminate the craft of teaching and the art of learning, offering insights shaped by classrooms, communities, and lifelong curiosity. They speak to patience, equity, rigor, and encouragement, celebrating small breakthroughs and the resilience needed to nurture potential. Whether you are a student, parent, teacher, or simply a lover of ideas, these perspectives invite reflection on how knowledge is shared and growth is supported. Let their wisdom spark empathy, curiosity, and a renewed appreciation for the transformative power of education.
"Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy"
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Educator
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"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity"
Horace Mann, Educator
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"Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever"
Horace Mann, Educator
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"Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it"
Horace Mann, Educator
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"Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak"
Alan Dundes, Educator
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"Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star"
Lucy Maud Montgomery, Educator
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"The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do"
Michael Porter, Educator
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"Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation"
D. Elton Trueblood, Educator
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"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition"
Timothy Leary, Educator
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"When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children"
Albert Shanker, Educator
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"Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity"
Michael Porter, Educator
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"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems"
John W. Gardner, Educator
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"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water"
John W. Gardner, Educator
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"You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it"
Cornel West, Educator
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"Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them"
Miguel de Unamuno, Educator
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"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition"
Jacques Barzun, Educator
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"Man is a messenger who forgot the message"
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Educator
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"Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible"
Mary McLeod Bethune, Educator
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"The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity"
Anna Julia Cooper, Educator
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"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome"
Booker T. Washington, Educator
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"Character is power"
Booker T. Washington, Educator
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"The one who loves the least, controls the relationship"
Robert Anthony, Educator
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"The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway"
Michael Pollan, Educator
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"From my time in Health I know that choice empowers people lives"
John Hutton, Educator
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"When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people"
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Educator
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"History never looks like history when you are living through it"
John W. Gardner, Educator
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"What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it"
Miguel de Unamuno, Educator
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"But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power"
James Baldwin, Educator
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"Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not"
Howard Thurman, Educator
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"Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery"
Horace Mann, Educator
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