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" It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine. "

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" The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again. "

" A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives. "

" Yes, I am proud, and very humble too. "

" It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. "

" Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction. "

" Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark. "

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" If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself. "

" Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember. "

" 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! "

" I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. "

" We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion. "

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" Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another. "

" I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child. "

" The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need. "

" People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved. "

" We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about. "

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" It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty! "

" I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them. "

" The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice. "