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Teaching Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for…
- Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the…
- I have come to realize that an early symptom of approaching mental illness is the belief that one's work is terribly important. If you consider…
- An educator should think of a child as a garderner thinks of a plant, as something to be made to grow by having the right…
- When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly,…
- It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the…
- The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew…
- Religion prevents our children from having a rational education; religion prevents us from removing the fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us from teaching the…
- More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given
- It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the…
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