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"Not everyone who has helped or is helping you wanted or wants to help you."

"With the best of intentions you toss me a lifeline. Failing to see how a piece of rope will do me any good, I ignore it and drown."

"When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter it."

"Easy does it, boys. I just need help standing, not flying."

"'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after."
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"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war."

"We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being."

"We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry."

"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."

"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."

"We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses."
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