Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

Sidney Hook
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  2. There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies. - Robert Frost

  3. The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. - Socrates

  4. Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core. - Heather Brewer

  5. Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. - Aristotle

More Quotes By Sidney Hook
  1. Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.

  2. Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

  3. Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

  4. Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

  5. To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

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