"The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority.""

-- Walter Karp

#Crush Quotes #Creativity Quotes #School Quotes

“Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.”
“Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.”
“For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.”
“Vowing, even intense vowing, is often useless. The next day comes and the next day goes. What works is making a vivid, concrete plan.”

Source : Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.228, Random House
“The power of the visible is the invisible.”
“My fathers a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.”
“Whoever is unwilling to help himself can be helped by no one.”

Source : Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1951). “The education of man, aphorisms”
“Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.”

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