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Your Quotes for 30 August 2005 - Teachers

As Back to School Week continues at Quotes of the Day, todays quotes will feature Teachers. Although education doesn't require teachers, and many learn best completely on their own, it wouldn't make much sense to go to schools if there weren't a cadre of teachers waiting to knock some sense into, uh, I mean, diligently impart their wisdom to the students.

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
     - Angelo Bartlett Giamatti, 1938 - 1989

The mark of a great teacher is his or her ability to recognize individuality and encourage it.
     - Audrey Flack

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
     - Henry Brooks Adams, 1838 - 1918

If he [a teacher] is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.
     - Kahlil Gibran, 1883 - 1931

Find a teacher who is an integral being, a beacon who extends his light and virtue with equal ease to those who appreciate him and those who don't. Shape yourself in his mold, bathe in his nourishing radiance, and reflect it out to the rest of the world.
     - Lao Tsu, The Hua Hu Ching

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
     - Lido Anthony Iacocca

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