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"Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!"
"If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others."
"I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia."
"Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'"
"Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it."
"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."
"Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child."
Explore more quotes by Ernest Dimnet
"Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul."
"Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it."
"The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things."
"The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present."
"Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room."
"Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement."
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