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“When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'”

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Author:Thomas Friedman

“Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up--thatis our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice.”

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Book:The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects

Source: The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects

“I am Peter Pan. He represents youth, childhood, never growing up, magic, flying.”

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Author:Michael Jackson

“A good education ought to help people to become both more receptive to and more discriminating about the world: seeing, feeling, and understanding more, yet sorting the pertinent from the irrelevant with an ever finer touch, increasingly able to integrate what they see and to make meaning of it in ways that enhance their ability to go on growing.”

Source: Effective Teaching and Mentoring: Realizing the Transformational Power of Adult Learning Experiences

“One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.”

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Book:The development of personality

Source: The development of personality

“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.”

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”

“The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization.”

Source: The Souls of Black Folk

“Everyone has in him something divine, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength in however small a sphere which God offers him to take or refuse. The task is to find it, develop it & use it. The chief aim of education should be to help the growing soul to draw out that in itself which is best and make it perfect for a noble use.”

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Author:Sri Aurobindo

“All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence.”

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Author:Denis Waitley