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Paul Q. Hirst
Paul Q. Hirst

Paul Q. Hirst was an individual active between 1947 and 2003, with an unknown profession and category. more

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“Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?”

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Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“I now understand what Nelle Morton meant when she said that one of the great tasks in our time is to "hear people to speech." Behind their fearful silence, our students want to find their voices, speak their voices, have their voices heard. A good teacher is one who can listen to those voices even before they are spoken-so that someday they can speak with truth and confidence.”

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Book:The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
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“Whether the teacher is authoritarian, undisciplined, competent, incompetent, serious, irresponsible, involved, a lover of people and of life, cold, angry with the world, bureaucratic, excessively rational, or whatever else, he/she will not pass through the classroom without leaving his or her mark on the students.”

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Book:Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage
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