I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
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I don't necessarily set out to teach or say anything in particular in my writing. Morals and themes come out as I'm telling the tale.
The truth is lived, not taught.
I was taught that the search for truth and the search for justice are not incompatible and are, in fact, essential.
I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.
I have spent more than a decade trying to improve the lives of some of the most vulnerable people on earth, and they've taught me countless lessons.
We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.
The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.
Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.
We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence is in the home.
I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.
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