The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.
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I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.Anne Sullivan Macy
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The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.
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Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.
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We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
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We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.
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