"It was my teacher's genius, her quick..." - Quote by Helen Keller
It was my teacher's genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful. It was because she seized the right moment to impart knowledge that made it so pleasant and acceptable to me.
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“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.”
“The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.”
“There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, touchableness to what is tangible.”
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“Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.”
“Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and persons of every age which requires education should be trained.”
“I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.”