"Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty."
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"Home is where one starts from."
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"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."
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"You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R."
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"You see it even in our educational systems, where the market model becomes central. It's a matter of just gaining a skill or gaining access to a job to live in some vanilla suburb, as opposed to becoming a critical citizen concerned with public interest and common good."
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"People who've been through our educational system, they think they're thinking, when they're just repeating like parrots."
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"Nothing is impossible for pure love."
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"Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity. The young must be dampened down. Never let them know how good they can be. That brings change. Spend lots of committee time talking about how to deal with exceptional students. Don't spend any time dealing with how the conventional teacher feels threatened by emerging talents and squelches them because of a deep-seated desire to feel superior and safe in a safe environment."
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"Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he will develop in adult life a sounder sort of mental tissue, even though he may seem to be 'wasting' a great deal of his growing time, in the eyes of those for whom the only channels of learning are books and verbally communicated information."
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"Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge."
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"No man is hurt but by himself."
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"All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten."
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"If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right."
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"The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child."
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"Only through communication can human life hold meaning."
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"What did you ASK at school today?"
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"What comes out of your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind."
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"~I don't always have a lot of energy, but my kids almost always revitalize me. Of course like any working mom, sometimes I'm guilt-ridden. I think I should be sitting down doing an educational computer game with Carrie or taking Ellie to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. These kids are such sponges, and I should be taking advantage of that.~"
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"For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere"
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"We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, affliction, or infamy. We kill when, because it is easier, we countenance, or pretend to approve of atrophied social, political, educational, and religious institutions, instead of resolutely combating them."
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