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Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.

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An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

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The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

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We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

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The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.

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A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

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Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

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