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Albert Houtum-Schindler
Albert Houtum-Schindler quotes
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“When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.”
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“Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty.”
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“For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile; nothing endures except the sense of difference.”
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“It's really seeing student involvement … as a variety of opportunities that are appropriate for each given student and responsive to their individual needs and their desires for their educational experience.”
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“Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.”
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“Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.”
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“What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.”
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“When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores.”
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“in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call the real world, on the other hand, what usually counts is money, power, and public success.”
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“Our fear of not mattering much has the potential to draw us away from what matters most.”
