John Cairns may refer to:
- John Cairns (biochemist) (born 1922), biochemist who first demonstrated the structure and replication of the E. coli genome
- John Cairns (politician) (1859–1923), British Labour Party, politician, MP for Morpeth, 1918–1923
- John Cairns (born 1942), former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
- John Cairns (1818–1892), Scottish divine and writer
- John Cairns (1857–1922), United Presbyterian Church minister, writer and biographer
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“Quintilian [educational writer in Rome about A.D. 100] hoped that teachers would be sensitive to individual differences of temperament and ability. . . . Beating, he thought, was usually unnecessary. A teacher who had made the effort to understand his pupils individual needs and character could probably dispense with it: I will content myself with saying that children are helpless and easily victimized, and that therefore no one should be given unlimited power over them.”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)
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