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Albert Einstein
“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.”
Albert Einstein

“There’s probably no better example of the throttling of creativity than the difference between what we observe in a kindergarten classroom and what we observe in a high school classroom,” she writes in Teach Your Children Well. “Take a room full of five-year-olds and you will see creativity in all its forms positively flowing around the room. A decade later you will see these same children passively sitting at their desks, half asleep or trying to decipher what will be on the next test.”
Madeline Levine

Eleanor Roosevelt
“What you don't do can be a destructive force.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

Pema Chödrön
“We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to challenge them. In Buddha's opinion, to train in staying open and curious - to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs - is the best use of our human lives.”
Pema Chodron, The Pocket Pema Chodron

Eleanor Roosevelt
“Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

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