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Janusz Korczak Quotes: I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love me. Rather, it is my duty to be concerned about the world, about man.
         

I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love me. Rather, it is my duty to be concerned about the world, about man.


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Each person carries an entire world within himself, and everything exists twice: once the way it is, the other the way he perceives it with his own eyes and feelings.



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Dare to dream... something will always come of it

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Whatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect.



My greatest fault is that I am no longer a child

My greatest fault is that I am no longer a child



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The soul of a child is as complicated and full of contradictions as our soul is.



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There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious. Seek [within] the undiscovered part of yourself. (emphasis added)



Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head.

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Take a look at the world and laugh

Take a look at the world and laugh





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