The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know. ✨ …

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The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know. ✨ Simone Weil (2015). First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge, p.14, Wipf and Stock Publishers
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In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. ✨ Simone Weil (2002). Gravity and Grace, p.128, Psychology Press
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If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants so … ▶

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know. ✨ Simone Weil (2015). First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge, p.14, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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