"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war."
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"All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?"
"THE BIGGEST TEST FOR PARENTS IS NOT HOW THEY PARENT, BUT HOW THEY RESPOND TO DISORDER AND UNPREDICTABILITY"
"Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known."
"Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages."
"The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself."
"This is the road I have tried to follow as a teacher: living my convictions; being open to the process of knowing and being sensitive to the experience of teaching as an art; being pushed forward by the challenges that prevent me from bureaucratizing my practice; accepting my limitations, yet always conscious of the necessary effort to overcome them and aware that I cannot hide them because to do so would be a failure to respect both my students and myself as a teacher."
"I cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am."
"Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student."
"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."
"You cannot open a book without learning something."
"A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers."
"If a thing loves, it is infinite."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."
"We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn."
"Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too."
"To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher."
"Most of your competition spend their days looking forward to those rare moments when everything goes right. Imagine how much leverage you have if you spend your time maximizing those common moments when it doesn't."
"I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me."
"An educational activity which aims to reveal meanings and relationships through the use of original objects, by firsthand experience, and by illustrative media, rather than simply to communicate factual information."