"Jerusalem was destroyed just because school-children were kept from their classrooms." ~~ Talmud, Shabbat
"Who declines to endow a scholar with his worldly goods will see no blessing." ~~ Talmud, Sanhedrin
"The prevailing pilosophy of education tends to discredit hard work." ~~ Abraham Flexner
"Moses ordained that Jews be addressed each holiday on the subject of that holiday, and he said to Israel: if you do this, it will be as if you established God’s sovereignty." ~~ Midrash Abkir, Yalkut Shimoni #408
"Just as a man does not blush to ask his friend to give him water, so he should not be ashamed to ask a younger man to teach him Torah." ~~ Tanchuma
"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. " ~~ Henry Kissinger
"We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. " ~~ Phyllis Diller
"When I see no way of teaching a truth but one that will please one intelligent man but will offend ten thousand fools, I address myself to the one, and ignore the censure of the thousands." ~~ Maimonides
"An unmarried man may not be an elementary teacher." ~~ Mishna: Kiddushin
"Good manners mean more than learning." ~~ Tanna Deve Eliyahu R.
"I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table. " ~~ Elie Wiesel
"The ill-tempered cannot teach." ~~ Hillel
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