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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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"She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil."

"There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless."

"All evil is good become cancerous."
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"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?"

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

"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.""

"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 help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men."

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

"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."
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