Mark Van Doren

Poet

1894-06-13

Quotes by Mark Van Doren

• I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension— the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds.

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• I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension— the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds.

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• The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

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• The world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.

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