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“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”

“The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."”

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”

“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”

“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

“Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.”

“The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.”

“It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.”

“Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.”