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Our fundamental impulses are neither good nor bad: they are ethically neutral. Education should aim at making them take forms that are good. The old method, still beloved by Christians, was to thwart instinct; the new method is to train it. Take love of power: it is useless to preach Christian humility, which merely makes the impulse take hypocritical forms. What you have to do is to provide beneficent outlets for it. The original native impulse can be satisfied in a thousand ways—oppression, po
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― Sceptical Essays
― Sceptical Essays
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The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus.
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― The Education Decree
― The Education Decree
