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A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion.

Theodore Roethke

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Theodore Roethke
Age: 55 †
Born: 1908
Born: May 25
Died: 1963
Died: August 1
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Saginaw
Michigan
Pleasure
Destroys
Much
Suggestions
Masters
Teaching
Room
Rooms
Sly
Learning
Suggestion
Education
Explicit

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