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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 487
AUTHOR: Anatole France (1844–1924)
QUOTATION: The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy.
ATTRIBUTION: ANATOLE FRANCE, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (vol. 1 of The Works of Anatole France), trans. Lafcadio Hearn, part 2, chapter 4, June 6, 1860, p. 198 (1924).
SUBJECTS: Education