"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."

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Source : Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

Margaret Mead

#Education Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Children Quotes

“I used to be a lawyer and I quit the practice of law to start writing and one of the reasons that I did that was I had an older sister who was too sick, who had breast cancer and it just got me to this moment of really looking at my life and saying what do I really want to do? What is really going to make me happy? Do I want to be sixty-five years old looking back and regretting not ever having taken the chance or the risk?”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com
“Compared to men writers of like distinction and years of life, few women writers have had lives of unbroken productivity, or leave behind a 'body of work.' Early beginnings, then silence; or clogged late ones (foreground silences); long periods between books (hidden silences); characterize most of us.”

Source : Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.38, The Feminist Press at CUNY
“Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.”
“I want to be the most eligible bachelor in New York City.”
“The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.”
“It is futile to assume that an initially ineffective advertisement still needs to wear in; wear-in either happens quickly or it does not happen at all.”
“A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.”
“Warm are the still and lucky miles, White shores of longing stretch away, A light of recognition fills The whole great day, and bright The tiny world of lovers' arms. Silence invades the breathing wood Where drowsy limbs a treasure keep, Now greenly falls the learned shade Across the sleeping brows And stirs their secret to a smile. Restored! Returned! The lost are borne On seas of shipwreck home at last: See! In a fire of praising burns The dry dumb past, and we Our life-day long shall part no more.”

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