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Wisdom
is that exercise of the reason into which the heart
enters.
- Albert Pike
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The whole aim of
practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by
menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins,
all of them imaginary.
- H.L. Menciken
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Nurturists and
hereditarians generally agree that almost all the
differences between cultures are likely to be the
product of history and environment!
- Edward O. Wilson, Consilience
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Intemperate Apostles of
temperance, intolerant haters of intolerance and
bigoted enemies of superstition, are not at all
uncommon.
- Albert Pike
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When schools attend
systematically to students' social and emotional
skills, the academic achievement of children
increases, the incidence of problem behavior
decreases and the quality of the relationships
surrounding each child improves. And, students
become the productive, responsible, contributing
members of society that we all want.
- Promoting Social and Emotional Learning, by
ASCD
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Teachers possess the
power to create conditions that can help students
learn a great deal - or keep them from learning much
at all. Teaching is the intentional act of creating
those conditions.
- Park Palmer, The Courage to Teach
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It is nothing short of a
miracle that the modern methods of instruction have
not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of
inquire...It is a grave mistake to think that the
enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by
means of coercion and a sense of duty.
- Albert Einstein
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