A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

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"A teacher touches eternity; they can never tell where their effect finishes."

- Henry Adams

Inspiration

"Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see."

- Henry Adams

Insight

"A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops."

- Henry Adams

Education

"If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees."

- Henry Adams

Philosophy

"A teacher has an effect on eternity: he never knows where his influence ends."

- Henry Adams

Influence

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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

Education

"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."

- John Graham

Education

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain

Education

"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

Education

"I must study lots of things or I won’t become a great person."

- Kotomi Ichinose

Education