Florian Znaniecki famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent.
-- Florian Znaniecki

#Teacher #Students #Descent

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.
Each individual creature on this beautiful planet is created by God to fulfil a particular role. Whatever I have achieved in life is through His help and an expression of His will. He showered His grace on me through some outstanding teachers and colleagues and when I pay my tributes to these fine persons, I am merely praising His glory. We are all born with a divine fire in us.
Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
As a student of life I just want to be constantly progressing mentally, physically, and spiritually.
Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.
The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.

Florian Znaniecki famous quotes

You may also like: