“More inspiring and interesting teaching alone can make progress in education possible: for such teaching alone has power to produce greater self-activity, greater concentration of mind, greater desire to learn not only how to get a living, but how to live.”

—  John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 226

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