Sybil Marshall famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself.
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when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it is poetry.
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I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child. they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.
-- Sybil Marshall
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The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
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This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future.
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In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.
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In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man
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Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged [end] up in court.
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