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The passionate teacher ‘Of some of our teachers we remember their foibles and mannerisms, of others their kindness and encouragement, or their fierce devotion to standards of work we probably didn’t share at the time. And of those we remember most, we remember what they cared about and that they cared about us, and the person we might become. It is this quality of caring about ideas and values, this fascination with the potential for growth within people, this depth and fervour about doing things well and striving for excellence that comes closest to what I mean in describing a ‘passionate teacher’’ Robert Freid

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One Hundred The child has a hundred languages, a hundred way of thinking, of playing, of speaking. A hundred, always a hundred, ways of listening, of marvelling, of loving; a hundred joys for, for singing and understanding, A hundred worlds to discover, a hundred worlds to invent, a hundred worlds to dream. The child has a hundred languages (and a hundred, hundred, hundred more) but they steal ninety-nine. The school and the culture separate the head from the body. They tell the child: to think without hands, to do without head to listen and not to speak, to understand without joy to love and to marvel only at Easter and Christmas. They tell the child: to discover the world already there And of the hundred they steal the ninety-nine. They tell the child: that work and play, reality and fantasy science and imagination, sky and earth, reason and dream Are things that do not belong together. And thus they tell the child that the hundred is not there. The child says: No way – The hundred is there

Pablo Casals: ‘Joys and Sorrows’ Sometimes I look around me with a feeling of complete dismay. In the confusion that afflicts the world today, I see disrespect for the very values of life. Beauty is all around us, but how many seem to see nothing. Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe; a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach our children? We teach them that 2+2 makes 4, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In the entire world there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. And look at your body – what a wonder it is. Your legs, your arms, your cunning fingers, and the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must cherish one another. You must work – we must all work – to make the world worthy of its children.

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