A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
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