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To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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