[etni] korczak - quote of the week

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I make a start from what others know, I build according to my own 
capabilities, I yearn honestly, completely, not under external orders, under 
the pressure of control of others, but out of my own, unconstrained 
goodwill, under the wakeful eye of conscience. Not as a matter of conformity 
but to enrich my own self. Distrustful alike of alien opinion and my own, I 
do not know, I seek, I question. Tired I brace myself and mature. Work is 
the most precious part on my innermost life. Not what is easy but what is 
most comprehensively effective. I understand that to experience means to 
suffer. Much experience ? great suffering. I judge failure not by the sum of 
frustrated ambitions but by the total of amassed evidence. Whatever is novel 
is a fresh incentive to mental effort. The truth discovered today is but one 
stage. I have no notion what will be the last stage; suffice it that I am 
aware of the first stage of work. That first stage of educational work ? 
what is its message, what does it amount to?

The Special School, Janusz Korczak

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