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"A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information....The key is the teacher."
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"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."
"As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted."
"Teaching is not only a profession, but it a is a purpose of a great life."
"You become a real teacher when your understanding of the wants and needs of the student results in the student revealing her inner beauty."
"Wise man can make people hearmore lessons than words spoken."
"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."
"Our goal as believers is to teach people to observe the principles of God."
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"Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets, many who are in their graves are in reality alive."
"The means through which people may perceive Truth have forms, Truth has no form."
"To comprehend the world around you, first, comprehend yourself."
"To understand, one must first question everything."
"The real challenge is to develop the capacity to see the world as it really is."
"If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken."
"To seek the truth, you must first recognize that you do not know."
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