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"The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know."
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"Education is not only learning the information, but it is also about gaining experience to unlock the door to wisdom."

"Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we're reading about, while reading about them. That's why there is symbols in books and why your English teacher deserves your attention. Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended the symbol to be there because the job of reading is not to understand the author's intent. The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as a we ourselves."

"Education enhances the beauty of the mind by learning to see the beauty in every little thing."

"Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement."

"Literature is life."

"The principal goal of education in schools is to teach students basic knowledge and kindle mindsets that know how to think better and to understand the world in which they live."
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"It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down."


"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."


"A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams."


"The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work."


"We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful."


"As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles."


"There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice."
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