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Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.
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We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
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You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.
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Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.
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Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
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Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.
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The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.
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Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
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It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
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I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.
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People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
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The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.