"Arrange the ordinances in order, like a set table." ~~ Akiba, Mekilta
"Who withholds a law from his pupil robs him of his inheritance." ~~ Rab (Abba Arika)
"The sons of sages are not always sages—so that no one can think Torah is inherited, and so that the sages’ sons do not hold themselves superior to others." ~~ (adapted from) Sayings of the Fathers 2:12
"A teacher should give his pupil opportunity for independent practice without suggestions from himself, and thus set upon him the stamp of indelible memory in its purest form." ~~ Philo
"No learning, no manners; no manners, no learning; no lore, no loaf." ~~ Avot 3:17
"A man may learn for seventy years and at the end die a fool." ~~ Yiddish Proverb
"If you see cities uprooted, know that it came about because they did not maintain teachers’ salaries." ~~ Simeon b. Yohai
"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
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