"In the history of education, the most striking phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a ferment of genius, in a succeeding generation exhibit merely pedantry and routine."

-- Ted Sizer

#School Quotes #Genius Quotes #Alive Quotes

“When life gives you lemons, throw them at the zombies.”
“Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.”

Source : Chaim Potok (2010). “The Gift of Asher Lev”, p.170, Ballantine Books
“Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information.”

Source : Charlotte Maria Mason (1935). “Home Education”, Tyndale House Publishers
“I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Common sense is not really so common. The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic”
“Music changed my life. I don't know who I would be without it. Don't ignore even the smallest glimmer of passion in your soul, run towards it with everything you have. It could change your life.”
“THE ROMANS SALTED their greens, believing this to counteract the natural bitterness, which is the origin of the word salad, salted.”

Source : Mark Kurlansky (2003). “Salt: A World History”, p.48, Penguin
“Blank pages inspire me with terror.”

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