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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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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."

"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
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"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."


"Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy."


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


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


"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."


"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."


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


"I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it."


"A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives."
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