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Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

W. E. B. Du Bois
Teacher, Peace, Children

Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. How does it feel to be a problem?

W. E. B. Du Bois
Children, Other Worlds, Feelings
"The Souls of Black Folk". Book by W. E. B. Du Bois, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1903.

In the treatment of the child the world foreshadows its own future and faith. All words and all thinking lead to the child, - to that vast immortality and wide sweep of infinite possibility which the child represents.

W. E. B. Du Bois
Children, Thinking, World
W. E. B. Du Bois (2007). “Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil”, p.119, Cosimo, Inc.

The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.

W. E. B. Du Bois
Disappointment, Children, People
W. E. B. Du Bois (2016). “The Souls of Black Folk”, p.209, First Avenue Editions

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