Tsunesaburo Makiguchi Quotes

• The essence of education is not to transfer knowledge; it is to guide the learning process, to put responsibility for study in the student's own hands...[and] place people on their own path of discovery and invention.

  Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

  Responsibility, Discovery, Hands

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• True happiness comes only through sharing in the trials and successes of other persons and of our community. Hence it is essential that any true conception of happiness contain the promise of full commitment to the life of the society.

  Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

  Commitment, Community, Promise

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• What then is the purpose of national education? Rather than devise complex theoretical interpretations, it is better to start by looking to the lovely child who sits on your knee and ask yourself: What can I do to assure this child will be able to lead the happiest life possible?

  Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

  Children, Lovely, Purpose

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• To not advance is to retreat.

  Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

  Inspirational, Retreat

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• Cooperative living can develop only as individual persons become able to see their own weaknesses and strengths as well as the weaknesses and strengthen of others.

  Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

  Weakness, Able, Individual

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