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"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education."

He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live."

"The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them."

"The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity."

"The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon."

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master."

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow."

"The good teacher ... discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them by the stimulating influence of the inspiration that he can impart. The true leader makes his followers twice the men they were before."

"The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation."

"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child."

"All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other."