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The teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning.

– Nathan M. PuseyRate it:

The teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery.

– Edsger W. DijkstraRate it:

The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend… The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson, …Journal, 1860Rate it:

The tears have neither language nor religion; however, transform a potent sign of the soul that, links directly with God.

– Ehsan SehgalRate it:

The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

– Samuel BeckettRate it:

The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.

– Kahlil GibranRate it:

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

– Fran LebowitzRate it:

The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.

– Robert Staughton LyndRate it:

The television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

– David FrostRate it:

The temple is nearby, God is far away.

– Vikrant ParsaiRate it:

The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence cynicism.

– Albert CamusRate it:

The ten crore population of a province/state or nation reeling under severe economic recession needs the ten lakhs employment generation in a year, not in ten years

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.

– George EliotRate it:

The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it.

– David SearlesRate it:

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

– James Fenimore CooperRate it:

The tendency of man's nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards. There are none but have this tendency to good, just as all water flows downwards. Now by striking water and causing it to leap up, you may make it go.

– Ni'matullah WaliRate it:

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

– Walter LippmannRate it:

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan values and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

– Reinhold NiebuhrRate it:

The tendency to do slavery is rewarded through increments and promotion in an organisation and not competency.

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

The tender voice of new language is as the breaths of whispers carried on the light.

– Heather Lydia ThornhillRate it:

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.

– John BurroughsRate it:

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.

– John Burroughs, The Snow-WalkersRate it:

The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year 2000 - to everyone who believes that wealth should be redistributed. And that message is clear and concise: Go to Hell.

– P. J. O'RourkeRate it:

The term "learning disability" has appeal because it implies a specific neurological condition for which no one can be held particularly responsible, and yet it escapes the stigma of mental retardation. There is no implication of neglect, emotional disturbance, or improper training or education, nor does it imply a lack of motivation on the part of the child. For these cosmetic reasons, it is a rather nice term to have around.

– U. S. Government Study On The Labeling Of ChildrenRate it:

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