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What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of whi...more

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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

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In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education ...more

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When you find yourself wanting to turn your children, or pupils, or even your neighbours, into people exactly like yourself, remember that God probabl...more

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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

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A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.

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Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every moral teacher is to keep ...more

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…the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twe...more

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His education had been neither scientific nor classical—merely “Modern.” The severities both of abstraction and of high human tradition had passed him...more

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The old dealt with its pupils as grown birds deal with young birds when they teach them to fly; the new deals with them more as the poultry-keeper dea...more

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An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Rea...more

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If my duty to my parents is a superstition, then so is my duty to posterity. If justice is a superstition, then so is my duty to my country or my race...more

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For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulg...more

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the difference between the old and the new education being) in a word, the old was a kind of propagation - men transmitting manhood to men; the new is...more

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By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a h...more