"The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids."
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"It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of teaching have not yet entirely strangled that sacred spirit of curiosity and inquiry, for this delicate plant needs freedom no less than stimulation."
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"Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education."
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"In all education the main cause of failure is staleness."
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"I am teaching... This year it's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros."
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"Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible."
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"All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge."
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"To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason."
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"Yoga means to bind back, unite. To bring the body and the soul together. For this reason the practice of yoga is a holy endeavor and the teaching of it to our people a very high calling."
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"We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier."
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"I love being a mom. And I think what I love the most is the way it makes me think about what's important and what's not important. What to fight for and what to just be cool with. What it is that I'm teaching through example and what it is that I was taught that I don't want to teach."
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"After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends."
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"We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our conduct."
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"And when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And asleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me must be heard of, say, I taught thee."
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"My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn. Any hard lesson that may do thee good."
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"To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westerners about what the market really means."
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"Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs."
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"Excellence is the new forever."
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"Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart."
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". . . Practice teaching catechism and preaching. Missionaries must apply themselves to these tasks and although they do not accomplish them as successfully as others do, according to the opinion of men, it must be enough for them that they are doing the Will of God and perhaps producing more real fruit."
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