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"Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn."
"When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it."
"I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity."
"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."
"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."
"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."
"There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people."
"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
"I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers."
"I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught."
"Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough."
"Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."
"When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him."
"Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them."
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."
"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
"Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works."
