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Thomas Moore

"Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed."

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"Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed."

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"They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing."

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"This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul."

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"Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."

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"If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I'll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming 'Where are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese?"

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"It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written."

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"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

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"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret."

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"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."

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"I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know."

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"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

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"The heart that has truly loved never forgets But as truly loves on to the close."
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"Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about."
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