Education
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"Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions."
bell hooks
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"Education is the most powerful tool for changing the world."
bell hooks
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"Teaching from a place of love and hope is an act of resistance."
bell hooks
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"Teaching and learning should bring joy."
bell hooks
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"Teaching is a practice of freedom."
bell hooks
"We do not need to be perfect to be whole."
bell hooks
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"We are not just educating people; we are liberating them."
bell hooks
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"Love is an act of will."
bell hooks
"The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy."
bell hooks
"Education is the practice of freedom."
bell hooks
"Experience is the best teacher."
John Dewey
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"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."
John Dewey
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"The child's own instincts and powers furnish the material and give the starting point for all education."
John Dewey
"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."
John Dewey
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"We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience."
John Dewey
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"The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people."
John Dewey
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"No one can think, feel, or imagine for someone else."
John Dewey
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"Education is the most powerful tool for changing the world."
John Dewey
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"If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow."
John Dewey
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"The school is fundamentally a means through which the integration of individuals takes place and through which they are inducted into the traditions and aspirations of the community."
John Dewey
"Education for every child must be a priority."
Malala Yousafzai
"We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced."
Malala Yousafzai
"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."
Malala Yousafzai
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"We cannot wait for change; we must create it."
Malala Yousafzai
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"We are realizing that education is a more powerful weapon than we ever thought."
Malala Yousafzai
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"We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back."
Malala Yousafzai
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"I tell my story not because it is unique, but because it is the story of so many girls."
Malala Yousafzai
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
Malala Yousafzai
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"I have found that people are ready to do anything for those who cry for help, as long as it does not cost them anything."
Malala Yousafzai
"I raise up my voice—not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard."
Malala Yousafzai
"The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity."
Maria Montessori
"We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when we are only at the beginning of our dawning knowledge about human personality."
Maria Montessori
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"The essential thing is for the task to arouse such an interest that it engages the child's whole personality."
Maria Montessori
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"The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I do not exist.'"
Maria Montessori
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"Free the child's potential and you will transform him into the world."
Maria Montessori
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"Help me to do it myself."
Maria Montessori
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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
Maria Montessori
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"The child is made of one hundred. A hundred is there. If you steal ninety-nine the child left us only one."
Maria Montessori
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"It is my responsibility to be the guardian of my students' individual development."
Maria Montessori
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"The hands are the instrument of the brain."
Maria Montessori
"Education is the practice of freedom—the means by which people deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world."
Paulo Freire
"Banking education treats students as empty vessels to be filled with knowledge."
Paulo Freire
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"Conscientization is the deepening of the attitude of awareness."
Paulo Freire
"We must adopt a critical pedagogy that treats students as subjects, not objects."
Paulo Freire
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"Reading the world comes before reading the word."
Paulo Freire
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"The more students work at storing the deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in the world as transformers of that world."
Paulo Freire
"A person is not illiterate because he or she cannot read and write, but because he or she cannot read the world."
Paulo Freire
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"To teach is not to transfer knowledge but to create the possibilities for the production or construction of knowledge."
Paulo Freire
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"Education makes sense because women and men learn that through learning they can make and remake themselves, because women and men are able to take responsibility for themselves."
Paulo Freire
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"Education either functions as an instrument which integrates the younger generation into the logic of the present system and brings about conformity; or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which people deal critically and creatively with reality."
Paulo Freire
"Knowledge is power."
Plato
"Courage is knowing what not to fear."
Plato
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"The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful."
Plato
"Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder."
Plato
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"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."
Plato
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"The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not."
Plato
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
Plato
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"The measure of a person is what they do with power."
Plato
"Justice in the life and actions of the state is possible only as it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens."
Plato
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
Plato
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