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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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"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."
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"The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."
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"You can see the evil, the evil is everywhere. As Far as I can tell I can build a town full of horror."
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"What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil."
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"I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong."
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"The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive."
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"Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again."
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"MANY PHENOMENA--wars, plagues, sudden audits--have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man."
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"There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it positively refuses to account for are a genuine portion of reality; and they may after all be the best key to life's significance, and possibly the only openers of our eyes to the deepest levels of truth."
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"An evil woman sends her husband away and wails her evil fate."
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"Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed."
Help
"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."
Education
"The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!"
Man
"We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master."
Work
"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war."
Peace
"If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men."
Man
"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."
Life
"One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child."
Happiness
"We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry."
Beauty
"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.""
Success
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