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“I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is not in the school to impose certain ideas or to form certain habits in the child, but is there as a member of the community to select the influences which shall affect the child and to assist him in properly responding to these influences.”
Source : John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.231, Indiana University Press
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“The insane little dwarf, Bush.”
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“This requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens”
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“Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace.”
Source : Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission”, p.160, Random House
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“Very few people are capable of sustained effort, and that's the reason why we have comparatively few outstanding successes.”
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“On land off an ice covered sea the traveler can, for example, detect the presence of open water, simply because it reflects less light than land or ice. The open sea's telltale sign is thus a darkness on the underside of the clouds.”
Source : Harold Gatty (2013). “Finding Your Way Without Map or Compass”, p.67, Courier Corporation
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“I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.”
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“I write to believe in goodness.”
