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We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

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Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

Lessons : An Autobiography (1986)

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Each of these private teachers who work for pay ... inculcates nothing else than these opinions of the multitude which they opine when they are assembled and calls this knowledge wisdom.

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The land is the real teacher. All we need as students is mindfulness. Paying attention is a form of reciprocity with the living world, receiving the gifts with open eyes and open heart.

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Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

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School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.

H. L. Mencken The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1908)

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