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Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too. — Confucius
Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. — John Dewey
Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced. — John Dewey
Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience. — John Dewey
It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children. — John Dewey
For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere — John Donne
The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must… — Albert Einstein
A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is an act of courage. — Paulo Freire
No reality transforms itself. — Paulo Freire
Only through communication can human life hold meaning. — Paulo Freire
The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions which penetrate the home are… — Paulo Freire
The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in the school, where the students soon discover thatin order to achieve some satisfaction they must adapt to… — Paulo Freire
There is, in fact, no teaching without learning. — Paulo Freire
Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral… — Paulo Freire
This is the road I have tried to follow as a teacher: living my convictions; being open to the process of knowing and being sensitive… — Paulo Freire
One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I… — Paulo Freire
The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but also of 'correct… — Paulo Freire
Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student. — Paulo Freire
No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as to declare that… — Paulo Freire
It is impossible to talk of respect for students for the dignity that is in the process of coming to be, for the identities that… — Paulo Freire
Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If nobody loved, the sun would go out. — Victor Hugo
To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher. — William James
There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire,… — William James

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