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“Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.”
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“Isn’t the point of education to teach students how to think, not what to think?”
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“Teaching is not entertainment, but it is unlikely to be successful unless it is entertaining (the more respectable word is interesting.)”
― Models of My Life
― Models of My Life
“I'm more interested in arousing enthusiasm in kids than in teaching the facts. The facts may change, but that enthusiasm for exploring the world will remain with them the rest of their lives.”
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“I have an historical, a cultural, and a moral obligation to give back something to my country. So I became a teacher.”
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