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"We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful."
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"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

"We were constantly hearing it repeated, that we must never again look upon ourselves as our own; but must remember, that we were solemnly and irrevocably devoted to God."
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"I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them."


"The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need."


"No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination."


"If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself."


"Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another."


"We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion."


"It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine."


"The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher."


"Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark."


"The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice."
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