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“MindSparks has produced some of the best materials on the market for teaching students how to read and write history with intellectual integrity and depth. Rarely have I come across curriculum so useful in helping students become literate, thinking citizens. Bravo.”

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Author:Sam Wineburg

“If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle.”

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Author:M. H. Abrams

“Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

“Plato--who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed only to "real" people and everyday events--knew what intellectual experience made for true humanity. He suggested that the future citizens of his ideal republic begin their literary education with the telling of myths, rather than with mere facts or so-called rational teachings.”

Source: The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales

“Certainly parents play a crucial role in the lives of individuals who are intellectually gifted or creatively talented. But this role is not one of active instruction, of teaching children skills,... rather, it is support and encouragement parents give children and the intellectual climate that they create in the home which seem to be the critical factors.”

Source: Miseducation: preschoolers at risk

“Rules and models destroy genius and art.”

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Author:William Hazlitt

“We have no proof that Socrates ever existed. We only know from witnesses to his life that he did. Like Jesus, he never wrote anything down. It doesn't matter to me whether he did or not exist because we have his teachings, his method of thinking, and his extreme intellectual and moral courage.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens

“As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.”

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Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”

“Teaching is not about information. It's about having an honest intellectual relationship with your students. It requires no method, no tools, and no training. Just the ability to be real. And if you can't be real, then you have no right to inflict yourself upon innocent children.”

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Author:Paul Lockhart

“I think serious research tends to be associated with higher academic quality, more prestige, more resources, and even, heaven help us, better teaching, to a greater extent than you might think. Folks who don't have an active intellectual life become, though the long years of just teaching, less intellectually alive and exciting.”

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Author:Nicholas Lemann

“The intellectual finds it reassuring to say that the businessman gets his money by luck; or monopoly, or exploitation, or dishonesty, or what have you. As a matter of fact, the truly dishonest man will last longer in college -teaching or the ministry than he will in the business world.”

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Author:Benjamin A. Rogge

“Teaching is been seen as kind of a moral calling and not as an intellectual job.”

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Author:Dana Goldstein

“If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.”

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Author:Stanley Kubrick

“My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!”

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Author:Anne Sullivan Macy

“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.”

“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”

“To generalize is to be an idiot.”

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Author:William Blake