"The main feature should be the teaching of principles through stories. Don't make it metaphysical at all."
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"Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect."
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"Teaching causes people to go into situations from which they cannot escape, except by thinking. Do not handicap children by making their lives easy."
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"Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind."
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"I do not accept the orthodox teaching that Jesus was or is God incarnate in the accepted sense or that he was or is the only Son of God."
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"I think teaching a man to hate himself is much more criminal than teaching a man to hate someone else."
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"My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life."
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"Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the practice."
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"To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching."
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"Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to all true teachings of the way, and this is the taste of freedom."
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"To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ."
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"We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us."
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"Men need only trust in Christ's teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth."
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"In parenting and teaching, let this be our aim: Not to make every idea safe for children, but every child safe for ideas."
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"No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money."
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"A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint. When I read an indifferent book, it seems the best thing I can do, but the inspiring volume hardly leaves me leisure to finish its latter pages. It is slipping out of my fingers while I read. It creates no atmosphere in which it may be perused, but one in which its teachings may be practiced. It confers on me such wealth that I lay it down with regret. What I began by reading I must finish by acting."
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"It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides."
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"Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in opening to us the houses of heaven than in teaching navigation; surgery better in investigating organiation than in setting limbs; only it is ordained that, for our encouragement, every step we make in science adds something to its practical applicabilities."
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"My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only go along with every step of the teaching but...precede it."
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"Thus godlike sympathy grows and thrives and spreads far beyond the teachings of churches and schools, where too often the mean, blinding, loveless doctrine is taught that animals have no rights that we are bound to respect, and were only made for man, to be petted, spoiled, slaughtered or enslaved."
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