Product Description

This compilation of notable quotations is a treasure of perceptive wisdom, beautiful thoughts, and keen wit gleaned from the writing of famous teachers of the past: Lord Acton, Henry Brooks Adams, John Adams, A. Bronson Alcott, Louisa May Alcott, Susan B. Anthony, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Hannah Arendt, Aristotle, Matthew Arnold, Isaac Asimov, W. H. Auden, Saint Augustine, Simone de Beauvoir, Henri Bergson, Allan Bloom, Charlotte Brontë, Anthony Burgess, Thomas Carlyle, Willa Cather, Confucius, John Dewey, W. E. B. Du Bois, Will Durant, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Margaret Fuller, Georg Hegel, Thomas Hobbes, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William James, Lyndon B. Johnson, James Joyce, Immanuel Kant, D. H. Lawrence, C. S. Lewis, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Herbert Marcuse, John Milton, Friedrich Nietzsche, Plato, Bertrand Russell, George Santayana, May Sarton, Jean-Paul Sartre, Seneca, Adam Smith, Socrates, Anne Sullivan, Henry David Thoreau, Lionel Trilling, Booker T. Washington, Evelyn Waugh, Simone Weil, Thornton Wilder, and Woodrow Wilson.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1050816 in Books
• Published on: 2001-10-08
• Released on: 2001-10-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 184 pages

About the Author
Diana J. Dell, a former college instructor, second and seventh grade teacher, photographer, business owner, disc jockey, social worker, and journalist, lives in the Boston area. Her other books are A Saigon Party: And Other Vietnam War Short Stories, Memorable Quotations: American Women Writers of the Past, Memorable Quotations: Humorists, Wits, and Satirists of the Past, and Memories Are Like Clouds, a 1950s childhood memoir.

Customer Reviews

Memorable Compilation
This is a wonderful tribute to all teachers from around the world. Bravo! Every teacher I know will be getting this marvelous book as a present.