"To exclude religious teaching altogether from education... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new importance and influence."
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"What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real."
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"A child starts from nothing and advances alone. It is the child's reason about which the sensitive periods revolve. The reason provides the initial force and energy, and a child absorbs his first images to assist the reason and act on it."
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"The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher."
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"The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions."
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"Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing."
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"No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete."
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"It's quite extraordinary to hear a supposedly learned person call the United States a leading terrorist nation, one of the leading terrorist nations in the world. It's false and very treacherous teaching."
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"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."
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"I was determined to know beans."
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"Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live."
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"We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them."
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"Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education...to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher."
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"Whoe'er excels in what we prize, Appears a hero in our eyes; Each girl, when pleased with what is taught, Will have the teacher in her thought. . . . . A blockhead with melodious voice, In boarding-schools may have his choice."
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"Love liberates. Love - not sentimentality, not mush - but true love gives you enough courage that you can say to somebody, "Don't do that, baby." And the person will know you're not preaching but teaching."
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"I do not teach. I relate."
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"Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching."
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"Education is teaching our children to desire the right things."
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"Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity."
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"Are our ways of teaching students to ask some questions always correlative with our ways of teaching them not to ask - indeed, to be unconscious of - others? Does the educational system exist in order to promulgate knowledge, or is its main function rather to universalize a society’s tacit agreement about what it has decided it does not and cannot know?"
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