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We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.

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Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.
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I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
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My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!
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Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.
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I never taught language for the purpose of teaching it but invariably used language as a medium for the communication of thought thus the learning of language was coincident with the acquisition of knowledge.
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If my parents didn't push me and didn't support education, I probably wouldn't be here today.... Regardless of whatever they went through and how they may have been treated, they felt education was important. So, it's easier when you have the parents who support it, rather than those who don't.
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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 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.
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