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If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.

 

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The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

 

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In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

 

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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

 

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All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

 

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A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though awakens your own expectations.

 

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A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

 

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Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.

 

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Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

 

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New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works ... images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting. That is why the discipline of managing mental models -- surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works -- promises to be a major breakthrough for learning organizations.

 

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

 

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If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

 

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Skill to do comes of doing.

 

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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.



Ralph Waldo Emerson:

 

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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion . . . It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

 

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If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The college, which should be a place of delightful labour, is made odious and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits. I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

 

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The man who can make hard things easy is the educator

 

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Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.

 

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Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers.

 

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All I really need to know ... I learned in kindergarten.