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“No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.”

Father Education Teacher Garden Method Guru

Author:Van Morrison

“Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable items in his education were never entered in the bills which his father paid for.”

Knows Men Should Father Education Strange Genius Circumstances Paid Bills Prepared Practicals Items

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“In 1838, Mirabeau B. Lamar, the Second President of the Republic of Texas and the Father of Texas education, declared: 'The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.'”

Men Mind Desire Father President Education Democracy Security Genius Acknowledge Republic Texas Dictator Guardian Free Man

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

“My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.”

Years Age Father Education Grew Six Grew Up

Book:The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

“Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.”

Ifs World Said Bigs Father Education Knowledge This World Wit Instruction Jest

Book:The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself

“You know, my father was a great encouragement for me because he spoke out for women's rights, he spoke out for girl's education. And at that time I said that why should I wait for someone else, why should I be looking to the government, to the army that they would help us? Why don't I raise my voice, why don't we speak up for our rights?”

“The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.”

Children Mother Father Education Responsibility Learning Groups Mankind Educational Agency

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and characteristics of mothers and teachers and gives them the ultimate responsibility for the child's life chances.”

Source: Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools

“In vain are Schools, Academies, and Universities instituted, if loose Principles and licentious habits are impressed upon Children in their earliest years . . . . The Vices and Examples of the Parents cannot be concealed from the Children. How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers.”

Source: The Portable John Adams

“My father wanted me to have all the educational opportunities he never had... so he sent me to a girls school.”

Wanted School Girl Father Opportunity Education Educational

Author:Daniel Tosh

“The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.”

Source: The Centaur

“No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.”

“Men learn while they teach.”

Men Inspirational Father Education Knowledge Teach Teacher Fatherhood Education And Teachers Teacher Student Teacher And Student Teachers Learning From Students

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.”

Believe Science Father Education Teacher Divine Fool Morality Revelations Credulity Divine Revelation

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more