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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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"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."

"Our goal as believers is to teach people to observe the principles of God."

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

"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."

"Teaching is the best way to learn. Never stop learning."

"Teaching is not only a profession, but it a is a purpose of a great life."
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"The bird which has no knowledge of pure water, has his beak in salt water all year round."


"From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths " outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone."


"There is something in man which can detect real love. We rub it out, or muffle it, by substitute-love."


"You must improve yourself on a higher level if you are to be able to help people, and not just weep over them."
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