"Children, of course, don't understand at first that they are being cheated. They come to school with a degree of faith and optimism, and they often seem to thrive during the first few years. It is sometimes not until the third grade that their teachers start to see the warning signs of failure. By the fourth grade many children see it too."

-- Jonathan Kozol

#Teacher Quotes #Children Quotes #School Quotes

“The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.”

Source : Alice Munro (2013). “Runaway”, p.252, Random House
“Rulers like Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser started subsidizing bread as a way to buy loyalty, or at least obedience, and this system became so pervasive that the Tunisian scholar Larbi Sadiki described countries who used it as dimuqratiyyat al-khubz - "democracies of bread." But the problem with this system of offering bread in exchange for genuine democracy is that it can never last - sooner or later, the bread will run out, and people will start demanding bread and roses too.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“My brother and I spent countless hours as kids playing with our dad's home camera, we would create little sketches and movies and talk shows. But it wasn't until I was 10 that I started considering that I could do it as a job.”

Source : Source: www.nerdprobs.com
“But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are.”
“We serve life, not because it is broken, but because it is holy.”
“You'd commit suicide trying to read my mind”
“Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives - we are each of us unique.”
“All of a sudden you're like the Bin Laden of America. Osama Bin Laden is the only one who knows what I'm going through.”

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