"Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public moneys for the public benefit, and not for the purposes of any individual or party."

-- Dorman Bridgeman Eaton

#Trust Quotes #Party Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“Pedagogy of the Oppressed resonated with progressive educators, already committed to a 'child-centered' rather than a 'teacher-directed' approach to classroom instruction. Freire's rejection of teaching content knowledge seemed to buttress what was already the ed schools' most popular theory of learning, which argued that students should work collaboratively in constructing their own knowledge and that the teacher should be a 'guide on the side,' not a 'sage on the stage.'”
“It's a good thing we have immigrant doctors and immigrant engineers, because if you or I get sick this afternoon, we're going to go to the hospital, and we're going to hope someone serves us.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“The cause of nutrition and growth resides not in the organism as a whole but in the separate elementary parts-the cells.”
“For anyone who has ever stood before a bathroom mirror and secretly thanked The Academy, a hilarious guide to becoming 'It' in an age where the line between fame and infamy is as fine as a Manolo Blahnik stiletto heel.”
“Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room As though dried straw, and if we turn about The bare chimney is gone black out Because the work had finished in that flare.”
“Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.”

Source : Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”
“Every day I turned a 'you can't' into a 'you can.'”
“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”

Source : Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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