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• Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener…
• The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the…
• Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.
• Knowledge is justified belief.
• Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.
• "Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.
• Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence.
• We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.
• The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field.
• Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation
• We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.
• Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.

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