“We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction. ”
Malcolm Gladwell
(born 1963); Author
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“By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.”
Latin Proverb

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“I dont want to be a product of my environment; I want my environment to be a product of me.”
Line from film "Departed""" 

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“Personally I do not resort to force - not even the force of law — to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all the influence of example.”
Rutherford Hayes
(1822-1893); 19th U.S. President
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“When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.”
Whoopi Goldberg
(born 1955); Actress, Radio Host, Author, Comedian
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“Example moves the world more than doctrine.”
Henry Miller
(1891-1980); Author, Writer
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“Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.”
François Duc De La Rochefoucauld
(1613-1680); Writer, Moralist
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“And children whose backgrounds have stunted their sense of the future need to be taught by example that they are good for more than they dared dream.”
Kenneth Keniston
Professor
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“Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.”
François Duc De La Rochefoucauld
(1613-1680); Writer, Moralist
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“Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and insensibly approximate to the characters we most admire. In this way, a generous habit of thought and of action carries with it an incalculable influence.”
Christian Nestell Bovee
Author, Lawyer
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“If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles...They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.”
Aldous Huxley
(1894-1963); Novelist
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“It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.”
Eric Hoffer
(1902-1983); Philosopher
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“An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.”
Carl Gustav Jung
(1875-1961); Founder Of Analytical Psychology
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“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”
Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens]
(1835-1910); Author, Humorist
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“Teachers: two kinds: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move and the kind that just give you a little prod from behind and you jump to the skies.”
Robert Frost
(1874-1963); Poet
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“Personal example carries more weight than preaching.”
Chinese Proverb

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“What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.”
Erica Jong
(born 1942); Educator, Author
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“We must continually remind students in the classroom that expression of different opinions and dissenting ideas affirms the intellectual process. We should forcefully explain that our role is not to teach them to think as we do but rather to teach them, by example, the importance of taking a stance that is rooted in rigorous engagement with the full range of ideas about a topic.”
bell  hooks [Gloria Jean Watkins]
(born 1952); Author, Educator, Feminist, And Human Rights Advocate
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“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”
Albert Schweitzer
(1875-1965); Philosopher, Physician, Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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“A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove... but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.”
Forest E. Witcraft
(1894-1967); Teacher, Scholar
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“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”
Anatole France
(1844-1924); Critic, Writer
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