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The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past.

The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past.

Arthur C. Clarke
Teacher, Children, Teaching

If children have interests, then education happens.

Arthur C. Clarke
Children, Interest, Happens
"The child-driven education". Sugata Mitra at TEDGlobal Talk, www.ted.com. July 2010.

Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.

Arthur C. Clarke
Stars, Children, Thinking
2001: A Space Odyssey ch. 47 (1968)

The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.

Arthur C. Clarke
Mother, Children, Farewell
Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2001: A Space Odyssey”, p.84, RosettaBooks

Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.

Arthur C. Clarke
Children, Fire, Ice
Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke: The Sentinel”, p.10, RosettaBooks

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