"Experiments show that children in unsupervised groups are capable of answering questions many years ahead of the material they're learning in school. In fact, they seem to enjoy the absence of adult supervision, and they are very confident of finding the right answer."

-- Sugata Mitra

#Children Quotes #School Quotes #Years Quotes

“I think all great wrestlers appreciate a good BATTLE”
“From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.”
“When I wasn't working I didn't know what to do with myself and sort of didn't exist, in a way, when I wasn't working, so I was like two different people. I am not like that anymore.”
“Good things happen when you take action. Bad things happen when you neglect.”
“To be creative, an idea must also be appropriateâ€”useful and actionable.”
“The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.”
“The inclination to believe in the fantastic may strike some as a failure in logic, or gullibility, but itâ€™s really a gift. A world that might have Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster is clearly superior to one that definitely does not.”

Source : Caldecott Medal acceptance speech for The Polar Express, polarexpress.com. 1986.
“Conditions to the north of us, in the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts zone of action, and our offensive on Kharkov demands that we not lose time and we commit all forces so that we can draw off as many divisions as possible from Kharkov. And even if we do not draw them off, at least we will not give Manstein the ability to take any of his units from our part of the front. If we attract one or two German tank divisions - it will be the best contribution to the defeat of the enemy in the south.”

Source : "Soviet Military Deception in the Second World War" by David M. Glantz, (p. 228), 1989.

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