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"ref": "1856, The Lamps of the Temple, page 452",
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"ref": "1969, The Poor Man's Guardian, page 52",
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"text": "An un-teacher, hopefully—and it is a difficult task that I embark upon, playfully— an un-teacher, hopefully, lets you lead yourselves toward the freedom of your being.",
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},
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"text": "I call myself an unteacher. When you do well in my class you get a balloon that reads, \" From your unteacher for being a good unstudent.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1996, Michele Cassou, Stewart Cubley, Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous",
"text": "I had become the unteacher. My students were students of themselves; the real teacher was the painting process.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2017, Stephanie Leon Neal, The Untraining of a Sea Priestess",
"text": "To be an unteacher requires patience; not everyone will be willing to listen, but an unteacher does not need to convince anyone.",
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