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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."
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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."

"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war."

"If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?"

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

"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."

"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."

"The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist.""
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