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I am always ready to learn although I do not always like to be taught.
-Winston Churchill
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Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.
-William Butler Yeats
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It is, in fact, nothing short a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.
-Albert Einstein
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This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.
-Maria Montessori
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Children are born passionately eager to make as much sense as they can of things around them. If we attempt to control, manipulate, or divert this process...the independent scientist in the child disappears.
-John Holt
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An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
-Benjamin Franklin
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A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
-Horace Mann
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