"It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother."

-- Agnes Repplier

#Education Quotes #Brother Quotes #Children Quotes

“Thought = creation. If these thoughts are attached to powerful emotions (good or bad) that speeds the creation”
“Art is born of humiliation.”
“I'm a very bad citizen. I've never even voted.”
“The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable.”
“When the Vent begins, you might confuse [it] for a conversation. It's not. It's a Vent. It's a mental release valve and your job is to listen for as long as it takes. Don't problem solve. Don't redirect. Don't comfort. Yet. Your employee is doing mental house cleaning and interrupting this cleaning is missing the point. They don't want a solution, they want to be heard.”
“There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools' and 'movements' are everything; by painting a group symbol on the brow of mediocrity, they condone their own incomprehension of true genius.”
“Young people know how to use these social networking tools, and they know how to use them effectively.”
“In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.”

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