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"The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity."
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"We are confident that evil can never happen to us until it does."

"The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason."

"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."

"The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others."
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"If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men."

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

"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."

"We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry."

"The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon."

"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."
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