"Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested."
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"What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows."
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"Learning never exhausts the mind."
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"It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest."
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"The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind."
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"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules."
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"You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength."
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"A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at explaining, and explain to those who are not very good at understanding."
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"The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!"
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"The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop."
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"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery."
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"Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want."
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"The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is him/herself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also teach. They become jointly responsible for a process in which all grow."
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"The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible"
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"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."
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"Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding."
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"Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties."
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"Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help."
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"What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness."
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"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape."
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