"If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain."

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[Children are] like talking animals. Their consciousness is so different from ours that they constitute a different species. They don't have to be particularly interesting children; just the fact that they are children is sufficient. They don't know what anything is, so they have to make it up. No matter how dull they are, they still have to figure things out for themselves.

— Fran Lebowitz