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There are two kinds of teachers—the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies." (I hope I am remembered as a prodder.)
- Robert Frost
Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be--to me in all events--a terrible thing without books.
- LM Montgomery
What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.
- George Washington
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.
- Benjamin Disraeli
I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
- Martin Luther
Dear Religion, This week I safely dropped a man from space while you shot a child in the head for wanting to go to school. Yours, Science.
- Ricky Gervais
The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion.
- Thomas Jefferson
They haven't eliminated religion from the public school. They have eliminated Christianity and have replaced it with an anti-God religion—humanism.
- Ken Ham
Religion, culture, education are all things that sound wonderful in theory. In practice, however, they are not so wonderful.
- Marty Rubin
There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a classroom -- only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class.
- Zig Ziglar
I hear and forget. I see and hear and I remember. However, when I see, hear and do, I understand and succeed.
- Zig Ziglar