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We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

Anne Sullivan Macy

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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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We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.
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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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The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.
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The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.
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I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area.
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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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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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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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It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
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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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We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
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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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I cannot explain it but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.
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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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Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitation touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful? Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be, therein to be content.
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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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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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Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
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People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
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