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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators. ↗

— Tony Campolo

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In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator. ↗

— Maria Montessori

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The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. ↗

— Maria Montessori

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Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

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Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

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Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions. ↗

— Utah Phillips

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There Are No Believers in This World: There Are Only the Make Believers and the Non-Believers. ↗

— Sharon Esther Lampert

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Over the last forty years, many educators, decision-makers, and even some parents have come to regard the arts as peripheral, and let’s face it, frivolous—especially the visual arts, with their connotation of ”the starving artist” and the mistaken concept of necessary talent ↗

— Betty Edwards

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