"True teaching cannot be learned from text-books..." - Quote by Helen Keller
True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.
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“Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.”
“To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted.”
“If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn't feel so all alone.”
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“In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people - the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.”
“I think we have systematically and critically harmed ourselves and many young people by advising them not to try things.”
“The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.”