"In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith."

-- John Taylor Gatto

#Taken Quotes #Teaching Quotes #School Quotes

“Every real form is a world. And any plastic surface is more alive than a face from which stares a pair of eyes and a smile.”
“The notions of going to work, putting in set hours, and getting 'face time' are increasingly antiquated ideas. Because of technology we have entered a modern era of work where we can work from wherever we want, whenever we want and we can be more productive and make greater contributions than ever before.”

Source : "Adjusting Our Work-Life Balance in the Internet Economy" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2010.
“We are the ones we've been waiting for.”
“Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.”
“She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; And humble cares, and delicate fears; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears; And love and thought and joy.”
“With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.”

Source : RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”
“I don't mind being called a "feminist," as I certainly embrace the tenets of feminism, though it does feel a little sad to me that we need to call a novel "feminist" simply because the female characters are interesting and strong.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Your ability to be a winner 100 percent of the time is based upon giving up the notion that losing at anything is equivalent to being a loser.”

You may also like: