"This is a very challenging moment for educators. Our children are headed for a much more networked existence, one that allows for learning to occur 24, 7, 365, one that renders physical space much less important for learning, one that will challenge the relevance of classrooms as currently envisioned, and one that challenges our roles as teachers and adult learners."

-- Will Richardson

#Teacher Quotes #Children Quotes #Space Quotes

“My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.”
“I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.”

Source : Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated”, p.125, Petrarca Press
“If you see a tennis player who looks as if he is working hard, that means he isn't very good.”
“Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all up. Round and round. Polishing those ugly rocks into gemstones. Thatâ€™s the earth. Why it goes around. Weâ€™re the rocks. And what happens to usâ€”the drama and pain and joy and war and sickness and victory and abuseâ€”why, thatâ€™s just the water and sand to erode us. Grind us down. To polish us up, nice and bright.”
“A lot of people put out albums with sort of crappy songs and a couple of singles because they know no one's going to listen to it anyway. We very much wanted it to be something that you do listen to from beginning to end and had a narrative that was important.”

Source : Source: www.thefader.com
“When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.”
“If I didn't play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.”
“A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they're right to some extent, in that the shows they're putting out are all the same.”

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