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The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.

Simone Weil
Running, Real, Teaching
Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.34, Routledge

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

The authentic and pure values, truth, beauty, and goodness, in the activity of a human being are the result of one and the same act, a certain application of the full attention to the object. Teaching should have no aim but to prepare, by training the attention, for the possibility of such an act. All the other advantages of instruction are without interest.

Simone Weil
Teaching, Should Have, Training
Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.120, Psychology Press

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