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"As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers."
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"Wise man can make people hearmore lessons than words spoken."

"A healthy and ideal system of education would be where a teacher would patiently impart knowledge, instead of curriculum, upon the students, only after assessing their acceptability " where a student would acquire knowledge in order to learn, not to earn " where the parents would be willing to make necessary sacrifices in order to adorn their child with curiosity and thereafter nourish that curiosity, regardless of how absurdly impractical it becomes to the eyes of the society."

"The best teacher is very interactive."

"More than anybody else I'd like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform."

"You cannot teach a person anything, you can only help him find it within himself."

"I will teach my son, that his desire to be great doesn't depend on those unfortunate enough to ignore their own."

"Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion."
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"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so."


"It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law."


"Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others."


"The mechanic, when a wheel refuses to turn, never thinks of dropping on his knees and asking the assistance of some divine power. He knows there is a reason. He knows that something is too large or too small; that there is something wrong with his machine; and he goes to work and he makes it larger or smaller, here or there, until the wheel will turn."


"For many years I have regarded the Pentateuch simply as a record of a barbarous people, in which are found a great number of the ceremonies of savagery, many absurd and unjust laws, and thousands of ideas inconsistent with known and demonstrated facts. To me it seemed almost a crime to teach that this record was written by inspired men; that slavery, polygamy, wars of conquest and extermination were right, and that there was a time when men could win the approbation of infinite Intelligence, Justice, and Mercy, by violating maidens and by butchering babes."
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