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“But the greatest difference between children and adults is that most of the children to whom I offer a turn on the cello accept it, while most adults, particularly if they have never played any other instrument, refuse it.”

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Book:How Children Learn

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“Go in confidence, study the rules, and above all things, study human nature for the proper study of mankind is man and you will find that while expanding the intellect and the muscles your enlarged experience will enable you to every day accumulate more and more principle which will increase itself by interest and otherwise until you arrive at a state of independence.”

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Book:The Art of Money Getting

Source: The Art of Money Getting

“If we try to make children fantasize, these fake fantasies, like the ready-made fantasies of TV, will in time drive out most of their true fantasies, the ones that come from their experience in the world and their need to make sense of it and become at home in it.”

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Book:How Children Learn

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“If I don’t learn how to think, then I don’t think I’ll ever learn.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“How much people can learn at any moment depends on how they feel at that moment about the task and their ability to do the task.”

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“If you begin an investigation with the conclusion that what you seek to understand is ultimately unknowable, then you've lost the battle against ignorance before you've even begun.”

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Author:Abhijit Naskar

“There is more real learning in a good picture than in twenty workbooks.”

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“The only thing to do was to turn off the questions and watch - like a child. Take it all in. See everything, worry about nothing.”

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