"Like jilted and disappointed lovers, some of my students just want to be left alone."

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Source : Kirsten Olson (2015). “Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture”, p.67, Teachers College Press

Kirsten Olson

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“Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.”

Source : "Tributes to French New Wave Master Jacques Rivette, Dead at 87" by Sam Adams, www.indiewire.com. January 29, 2016.
“Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy have been fairly opposed, the latter has been forced to retire from the lists, bleeding and crushed if not annihilated; scotched, if not slain.”
“The teacher's chief difficulty is poverty. He (or she) belongs to a badly paid profession. He cannot dress and live like a workman, but he is sometimes paid as little as an unskilled laborer.”
“The ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is the man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status of a well-cared-for herd animal. Thinking people become the tyrants' worst enemies.”
“I guess I just take things as they come now, as far as that goes. I get really excited to do the project, but I don't think too much beyond that.”
“I had to put my kid before my career and all the money I was making. I decided to do the right thing. I was dying inside. If I didn't have my daughter, I would be dead right now, for sure.”
“There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.”
“There are some things, once they are done, that we can never question, because if we did, we wouldn't be able to go on. And we have to go on, every single day.”

Source : Caragh M. O'Brien (2011). “Birthmarked”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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