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To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.

— Louis Sullivan

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Verily, there needs a gardener, and many gardens.

Kindergarten Chats (1918)

What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?

Kindergarten Chats (1918)

We must now heed the imperative voice of emotion.

The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered (1896)

Truly we are face to face with great things.

Education (1902)

The true architectural art, that art toward which I would lead you, rests, not upon scholarship but upon human powers; and, therefore, it is to be tested, not by the fruits of scholarship, but by the touch-stone of humanity.

Kindergarten Chats (1918)

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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.

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