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"One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child."
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"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."
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"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."
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"Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others."
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"You will find the greatest happiness in letting yourself be."
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"Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it."
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"The reward of life is Joy."
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"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."
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"To be happy, be happy with what you have. To be sad, want what you deserve."
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"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."
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"I feel like spring after winter, and sun on the leaves; and like trumpets and harps and all the songs I have ever heard!"
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"Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed."
Help
"The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!"
Man
"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war."
Peace
"If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks."
Life
"One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child."
Happiness
"We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry."
Beauty
"The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist.""
Success
"The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon."
Lie
"To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator."
Life
"The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil."
Creativity
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