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Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers who in their turn will manufacture still more teachers.

Author: Simone Weil

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Humility is attentive patience.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil but as a necessity, even a duty.

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.