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"I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them."
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"You're frustrated because you keep waiting for the blooming of flowers of which you have yet to sow the seeds."

"Patience is real self-mastery."

"If kindness is beauty, patience is disarming elegance."

"Until the stone becomes soft, it cannot attach itself to the wall."

"Patience is to wait for the ice to melt instead of breaking it."
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"The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher."


"Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy."


"We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion."


"The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need."


"The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice."


"No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination."


"Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark."


"I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it."


"It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine."
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