A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Galileo Galilei
It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.
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Fulton J. Sheen
Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
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Aristotle
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
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Albert Einstein
I’ve come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable...
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Haim G. Ginott
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Daddy thinks history starts fresh every day, every minute, that time itself begins with the feelings he’s having right now. That’s how he keeps betraying us, why he roars at us with such conviction. We have to stand up to that, and say, at least...
My mind is like a room where the door swings free in the breeze, and many visitors come and go and stay and vanish as they will.
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