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571 Educator Quotes

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Knowledge Popular Scientific Which
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The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not.

Been Best Far Has-Been
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The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.

Educating Give Greatest Habit
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The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.
Flattery Genuine Love Neither
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The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.

Character Haste Hurry More
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The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!
Broad Human HumanSoul Learning
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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Beauty Cosmetic Happiness Like
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To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.

Book Exercise Hard Notes
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We especially need imagination in science.

Imagination Need Science
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Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines.

About Care Catholic Church
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I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

Above Any Been Better
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Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Between Conflict Hands Means
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It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.

Absolutely Awareness Critical Essential
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The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.

Confidence Leaders People Reflects
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How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?

Beings Developing Divided How
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Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.

Born Entity Oppressor Revolution
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Manipulation, sloganizing, depositing, regimentation, and prescription cannot be components of revolutionary praxis, precisely because they are the components of the praxis of domination.

Because Cannot Components Domination
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Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

Begin Both Contradiction Education
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Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.
Acts Consists Education Information
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The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.

Adopted Fearful Freedom Guidelines
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It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't.

Brazil Critical Land Make
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Every society needs to examine itself in relation to other societies.
Every Examine Itself Needs
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I am an educator who thinks globally.

Am Educator Globally IAm
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Education is freedom.

Education Freedom
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You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.
Create beauty Excite Sustenance Soul
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Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.

Love Stammers Stutters Best
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Now my belly is as noble as my heart.

My belly Noble Heart
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Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe
Love beauty Shadow God
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Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

Speech Second possession Soul World
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Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.

Earth Bless me Fecund Sacred
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The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.

The poet Love Words Knot
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Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.

Writing Cheer me Soothe Spirit
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What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people,

Soul Body Artist People
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There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful.
Joy Being healthy Beauty
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Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.

Many things Child Bones Formed
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In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I perish. I have only my hard breath, my reason and my madness. I cling to the vine of my prayer. I tend it at the root of the stalk of night.

Secret Night Prayer Grows
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All night I have suffered; all night my flesh has trembled to bring forth its gift. The sweat of death is on my forehead; but it is not death, it is life!

All night Trembled Death Life
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My grief and my smile begin in your face, my son.

My grief Smile My son
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I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.
Lost Carrying Childhood Favorite flower
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For me, religiosity is ... the constant remembrance of the presence of the soul.

Religiosity Remembrance Soul
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Let the radiance of my enthusiasms envelop the poor courtyard and the bare classroom. Let my heart be a stronger column and my goodwill purer gold than the columns and gold of rich schools.

Radiance My enthusiasms Poor courtyard
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I have a faithful joy and a joy that is lost. One is like a rose, the other, a thorn. The one that was stolen I have not lost.

Faithful joy Lost Thorn Stolen
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Dusk I feel my heart melting in the mildness like candles: my veins are slow oil and not wine, and I feel my life fleeing hushed and gentle like the gazelle.
Dusk Heart Candles Veins
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People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

Celebrate Celebrated Mistake More
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Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
Just Language Life Matter
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In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.

Different Universe Asking Bigger
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What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.
What They Thing Answer
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I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired.

Writing Simple Justice Trying
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We cannot create what we can't imagine.
We Cannot Create What
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Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.

Come Celebrate That Something
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