If you think you can do a thing, or think you can't do a thing; you're right.
-Henry Ford
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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from in the bettering of man's future.
-Maria Montessori
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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
- George Bernard Shaw
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
-Cicero
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When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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As a child lives today, he will live tomorrow.
-John Dewey
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The anxiety children feel at constantly being tested, their fear of failure... severely reduces their ability both to perceive and to remember, and drives them away from the material being studied.
-John Holt
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The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
-Michelangelo
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When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is,
and respect for what he may become.
-Louis Pasteur
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Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to admit it.
-Thomas Jefferson
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-Albert Einstein
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The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.
-Maria Montessori
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Teaching is the highest form of understanding.
-Aristotle
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The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done; men who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.
-Jean Piaget
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
-Frederick Douglass
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Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
-Thomas Edison
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Every man is proud of what he does well...his heart is in his work, and he will do twice as much of it with less fatigue.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of Society is not natural to mankind. It cuts against the grain.
-Winston Churchill more about Churchill
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
-Charles F. Kettering
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Games lubricate the body and the mind.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
-Beatrix Potter
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Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.
-Leonardo da Vinci
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Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.
-Albert Einstein
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You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
-Marvin Minsky
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People seldom see the halting and painful steps at which the most insignificant success is achieved.
-Anne Sullivan
The world of education is like an island where people, cut off from the world, are prepared for life by exclusion from it.
-Maria Montessori
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The Possible's slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination.
-Emily Dickinson
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