The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Heinlein's novel The Rolling Stones
John Sterling player on 1890 Philadelphia Athletics baseball team see 1890 Philadelphia Athletics season
John Sterling (sportscaster) (born 1948) radio announcer for the New York Yankees
John Sterling (American football) (born 1964) American football player
John Allen Sterling (1857–1918) American politician from Illinois
John Whelan Sterling (1816–1885) see List of Presidents and Chancellors of the University of Wisconsin–Madison
John William Sterling (1844–1918) philanthropist major benefactor to Yale University
John Sterling Rockefeller (1904–1988) businessman member of Rockefeller family
John T. John Sterling may refer to:
John Sterling (author) (1806–1844) British author subject of a life by Thomas Carlyle
Major-General John Barton Sterling (1840–1926) his son and commander of the Coldstream Guards

John Sterling character in Robert A.