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"As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers."

"A healthy and ideal system of education would be where a teacher would patiently impart knowledge, instead of curriculum, upon the students, only after assessing their acceptability " where a student would acquire knowledge in order to learn, not to earn " where the parents would be willing to make necessary sacrifices in order to adorn their child with curiosity and thereafter nourish that curiosity, regardless of how absurdly impractical it becomes to the eyes of the society."

"Counsels of BahaudinYou want to be filled. But something which is full has first to be emptied. Empty yourself so that you will fill properly, by observing these counsels, which you can do as duties to yourself:FirstNever follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion."

"From today onward, you will learn how to become evangelical about the many ways you help people."

"The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus."
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"Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense."

"A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both."

"Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain."
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