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"Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany."
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"Education is not only learning the information, but it is also about gaining experience to unlock the door to wisdom."
"Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are not prepared to gain new information for development. Learning is the intervention!"
"Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we're reading about, while reading about them. That's why there is symbols in books and why your English teacher deserves your attention. Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended the symbol to be there because the job of reading is not to understand the author's intent. The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as a we ourselves."
"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."
"Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness."
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"It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching."
"But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war."
"It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq."
"Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves."
"But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich."
"There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills."
"The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake."
"There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours."
"We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour."
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