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• These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
• The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one…
• A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
• What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
• At certain times and in certain schools it is orthodox to be a rebel; and in general it is a very poor…
• The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the…
• The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own…
• The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

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