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"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."
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"Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!"

"I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever."

"There is no better way to improve yourself than an exchange of ideaswith peers."

"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society."

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
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"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war."

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

"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."

"The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!"

"The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity."

"If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men."
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