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Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you a...more

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But what is the point of education at all? Is it merely to cultivate the capacity of memory, passing examinations and getting a job and all the rest, ...more

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While one is young is the time to investigate, to experiment with everything. The school should help its young people to discover their vocations and ...more

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Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. T...more

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To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education.

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There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without love, which brings an i...more

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To understand a child we have to watch him at play, study him in his different moods; we cannot project upon him our own prejudices, hopes and fears, ...more

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Meditation is one of the most serious things; you do it all day, in the office, with the family, when you say to somebody "I love you", when you are c...more