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You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

Anne Sullivan Macy

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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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We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush
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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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We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.
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Why, it is as easy to teach the name of an idea, if it is clearly formulated in the child's mind, as to teach the name of an object.
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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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The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.
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Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.
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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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No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.
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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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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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We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.
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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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Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.
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The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
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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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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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