The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those w…

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The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved by the pupils will obtain results which one of a more forbidding temperament finds it impossible to secure. ✨ William James (2013). Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals, p.24, Courier Corporation
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