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"It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?"

"It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?"

Abraham Joshua Heschel, Polish Educator

9

"If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned."

"If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned."

Ward Churchill, American Educator

Death, Policy, Destruction, Foreignpolicy

9

"One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears."

"One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears."

Temple Grandin, American Educator

Health, Hearing, Hurt, Problems, School

9

"Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative."

"Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative."

Leland Stanford, American Educator

Money, Labor, Skill

9

"The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all."

"The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all."

Kingman Brewster, Jr., American Educator

Saying, Kingman Brewster

9

"In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world's children."

"In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world's children."

Carol Bellamy, American Educator

Leadership, Time, Financial, Benefits

9

"We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy."

"We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy."

James E. Rogers, American Educator

Education, Americans, Democracy, Freedom

9

"And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing."

"And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing."

Robert Sternberg, American Educator

Life, Order, Succeed, World

9

"Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy."

"Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy."

Seth Lloyd, American Educator

Energy, Memory, Space

9

"Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament."

"Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament."

Thomas Arnold, English Educator

Family, Son, Earth, Mind, Stars

9

"In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished."

"In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished."

Charles Kendall Adams, American Educator

Heart, Columbus, Fire, Old

9

"Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance."

"Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance."

Robert Conklin, American Educator

Change, Thought, Feeling

9

"I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it."

"I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it."

Anne Sullivan Macy, American Educator

Education, Life, Perseverance, Will

9

"Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans."

"Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans."

Gary L. Francione, American Educator

Animals, Property

9

"FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good."

"FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good."

Felix Adler, German Educator

Legal, Time, Community, Conviction

9

"While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible."

"While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible."

Lawrence Lessig, American Educator

Technology, Software

9

"Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if you like, processes that information."

"Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if you like, processes that information."

Seth Lloyd, American Educator

Time, Information

9

"The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up."

"The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up."

Max Muller, German Educator

9

"Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise."

"Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise."

Frank Moore Colby, American Educator

9

"These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out."

"These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out."

Emily Greene Balch, American Educator

Death, Hope, Possessions

9

"It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.'"

"It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.'"

Thomas Arnold, English Educator

Friendship, Death, Life, God, Thought

9

"All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship."

"All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship."

Julius Wellhausen, German Educator

Unity, Worship, Writers

9

"Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities."

"Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities."

Marvin Olasky, American Educator

Power, Minority

9

"I had something called the back of the chair test. Where I sit, we don't sit like you and I do. I can see a sliver right behind them and they come out and they sit like this like god students and they don't touch the back of the chair."

"I had something called the back of the chair test. Where I sit, we don't sit like you and I do. I can see a sliver right behind them and they come out and they sit like this like god students and they don't touch the back of the chair."

James Lipton, American Educator

God, Right, Students

9

"A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis."

"A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis."

Temple Grandin, American Educator

Work, Children, May, Treatment

9

"Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water."

"Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water."

Paul Farmer, American Educator

Medical, Care, Rights, Now

9

"The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty ."

"The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty ."

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, American Educator

Faith, People, Heart, America

9

"If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts."

"If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts."

Felix Adler, German Educator

Legal, Knowledge, Desire, Information

9

"The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it."

"The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it."

Alan Dundes, American Educator

Education, Class, Order, Reading, Running

9

"For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer."

"For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer."

Carol Bellamy, American Educator

Age, Change, Children, Completion

9

"Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses."

"Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses."

James Baldwin, American Educator

Trust, Beliefs, Impossibility

9

"After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a much more ancient Goddess."

"After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a much more ancient Goddess."

Carol P. Christ, American Educator

Woman, Women, Research

9

"Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal."

"Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal."

Lawrence Lessig, American Educator

9

"As long as Florida remains a swing state, Cuban exiles in Florida will remain a very powerful voting bloc."

"As long as Florida remains a swing state, Cuban exiles in Florida will remain a very powerful voting bloc."

Joshua A. Tucker, American Educator

Politics, State, Voting, Will

9

"At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum."

"At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum."

Joseph Lancaster, English Educator

Family, Children, Parents, Schools

9

"May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks."

"May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks."

Joseph Lancaster, English Educator

Friendship, Education, Children, Facts, Friends

9

"Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master."

"Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master."

Freda Adler, American Educator

Law, Man, Woman

9

"Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience."

"Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience."

Freda Adler, American Educator

Experience, Perceptions

9

"Character is power."

"Character is power."

Booker T. Washington, American Educator

Power, Character

9

"How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!"

"How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!"

Max Muller, German Educator

Time, Day, Mankind, May

9

"In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years."

"In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years."

Jacques Barzun, American Educator

Work, Day, Teaching, Years

9

"It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not."

"It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not."

Alfred Whitney Griswold, American Educator

9

"Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light."

"Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light."

Max Muller, German Educator

Time, Soul, First, Light

9

"No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts."

"No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts."

Booker T. Washington, American Educator

Life, Injury, Race, Will

9

"Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers."

"Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator

People, May, Mountains, Numbers

9

"Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach."

"Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach."

John W. Gardner, American Educator

9

"The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running."

"The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running."

Dennis Banks, American Educator

9

"The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution of the productive capacity of men."

"The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution of the productive capacity of men."

Leland Stanford, American Educator

Man, Men, Wealth, Labor, Will

9

"If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are."

"If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are."

John W. Gardner, American Educator

People, Respect

9

"A Socrates in every classroom."

"A Socrates in every classroom."

Alfred Whitney Griswold, American Educator

Education, Classroom

9

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