"To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted."

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Source : Maxine Greene “Landscapes of Learning”, Teachers College Press

Maxine Greene

#Taken Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Moral Quotes

“Many feel the terms "Sabbath day" and "play day" are synonymous. . . . But I . . . know that remembering to keep the Sabbath day holy is one of the most important commandments we can observe in preparing us to be the recipients of the whisperings of the Spirit.”
“I don't see perfection as far as a visual image of perfection. "Perfection" to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, "I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do." Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That's perfection.”
“With acting, I always felt like I didn't have control of it. It was all about other people giving me a job.”
“Had you been lying all along? Mum gently stroked my hair. I whispered into her shoulder. â€œI canâ€™t go back. Not yet. I canâ€™t leave.â€ And she held my head tight to her chest and wrapped her arms around me. â€œYou donâ€™t have to,â€ she said, rocking me. â€œYou donâ€™t have to do anything you donâ€™t want to do, not anymore.â€ And I cried.”
“I can watch CNN on television or the Internet to find out what happened in Hong Kong ten minutes ago. After all, it doesn't matter where something is made, we're all part of the same big family now.”
“To assume that a bigger pipeline is a better pipeline is a dangerous assumption.”
“I am not in the body of life. I hover on the extremities. I float.”
“My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.”

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