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The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Simone Weil
Education, Teacher, Teaching
Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.14, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives.

Simone Weil
Education, Children, Creating

Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.

Simone Weil
Education, Order, Academic Work
Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.36, Routledge

The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.

Simone Weil
Education, Real, Attention
Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.32, Routledge

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