Tsunesaburo Makiguchi quotes
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“What then is the purpose of national education? Rather than devise complex theoretical interpretations, it is better to start by looking to the lovely child who sits on your knee and ask yourself: What can I do to assure this child will be able to lead the happiest life possible?”
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“Cooperative living can develop only as individual persons become able to see their own weaknesses and strengths as well as the weaknesses and strengthen of others.”
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“The essence of education is not to transfer knowledge; it is to guide the learning process, to put responsibility for study in the student's own hands...[and] place people on their own path of discovery and invention.”
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“True happiness comes only through sharing in the trials and successes of other persons and of our community. Hence it is essential that any true conception of happiness contain the promise of full commitment to the life of the society.”
-- Tsunesaburo Makiguchi
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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Source : The Lovely Bones ch. 23 (2002)
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“A disciple serves the spiritual master with the sole purpose of getting instructions from him.”
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“An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.”
Source : 1935 Uncommon Law,'Fox-Hunting Fun'.
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Source : "Islam Is a Faith of Reason". Interview with Stefan Aust and Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. October 12, 2006.
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