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"It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things."
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"One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts."
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"We all make mistakes, but one of our biggest mistakes is continually revisiting the past."
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"I made a lot of mistakes, one of them was to promise. I must stop promise, the promise is like something which you in everytime in any case you must do what you said you will do! - That's why I hate it!"
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"It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved."
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"The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."
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"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."
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"It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task."
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"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
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"The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires."
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"Mistakes show us what we need to learn."
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"I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area."
History
"It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!"
Experience
"I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think."
Education
"It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things."
Mistake
"People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved."
Success
"I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child."
Love
"My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!"
Heart
"Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction."
Sympathy
"Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember."
Time
"The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments."
Truth
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