"Teaching is too vital an occupation to be left to the lazy or greedy or negative"

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Source : Eliot Wigginton (1986). “Sometimes a Shining Moment: The Foxfire Experience”, Doubleday

Eliot Wigginton

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“I always thought I would be a marine biologist because I love the sea - but considering the fact that I've always loved acting and the theater, I don't think I ever gave anything else much of a chance.”
“If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.”
“Information is acquired by being told, whereas knowledge can be acquired by thinking.”
“Gentlemen don't propose when they're eating.”

Source : "Fictional character: Carol Beldon". "Mrs. Miniver", www.imdb.com. 1942.
“Feeling gratitude isn't born in us-it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.”
“I'm my biggest critic. I want there to be no flaws when you hear it. When I think that maybe it's ready, I just hop in my car it's gotta have some bump - and go to corner stores, youngsters on the block, play it for anyone. If they get into it, I get a reaction, the song passes the hyphy test. If it's just cool, we throw it away; it's not going on the record. But if it makes you wanna move - seriously - if it makes you react the same way I felt, then it passes.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained.”
“There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created the idea of the individual in the Middle East and saved it from the communitarianism, the collectivism of the tribe.”

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