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The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus… — Howard Gardner
Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may… — Abraham Lincoln
An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects. — Martin Luther
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them. — Werner Heisenberg
The subject then of these chapters may be stated thus, - man's only righteousness is through the mercy of God in Christ, which being offered… — John Calvin
Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of… — Benjamin Graham
If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating. — Leigh Hunt
Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction. — Wystan Hugh Auden
History has now been for the first time systematically considered, and has been found, like other phenomena, subject to invariable laws. — Auguste Comte
An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it now and then… — Samuel Eliot Morison
Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your… — Kurt Vonnegut
Instead of encouraging the student to devote himself to his studies for the sake of studying, instead of encouraging in him a real love for… — Karl Popper
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the… — Albert Einstein
Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding of his subject:… — Jacques Barzun
Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns. — John Maurice Clark
According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and… — William Whewell
A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge must start with… — Karl Mannheim
As with all great teachers, his curriculum was an insignificant part of what he communicated. From him you didn't learn a subject, but a life...Tolerance… — William Alexander Percy
It appears to me that the subject of music, from Machaut to Boulez, has always been its construction. Melodies of 12-tone rows just don't happen.… — Morton Feldman

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