"Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth."

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Source : Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and updated)”, p.220, W. W. Norton & Company

Helen Caldicott

#Teacher Quotes #Believe Quotes #Fate Quotes

“Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.”
“You don't know when you're twenty-three. You don't know what it really means to crawl into someone else's life and stay there. You can't see all the ways you're going to get tangled, how you're going to bond skin to skin. How the idea of separating will feel in five years, in ten - in fifteen. When Georgie thought about divorce now, she imagined lying side by side with Neal on two operating tables while a team of doctors tried to unthread their vascular systems. She didn't know at twenty-three.”
“Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.”

Source : "The American Dream belongs to all of us". Interview with Suzanne Malveaux, edition.cnn.com. September 6, 2012.
“In looking around me seeking for miserable resources against the heaviness of time, I open a book and I say to myself, as the cat to the fox: I have only one good turn, but I need no other.”
“One of those blocks (that prevent the 'Middle East from entering the mainstream of modernity') is the orthodox tenet that the Koran and the scriptures contain all the knowledge required to deal with the problems of contemporary society.”
“It is absurd and anti-life to be a part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want to learn to construct buildings, or to sit with a stranger discussing the construction of buildings when you want to read poetry.”

Source : "Why Schools Don't Educate". John Taylor Gatto's New York City Teacher of the Year Acceptance Speech, www.naturalchild.org. January 31, 1990.
“The song was wordless; The singing will never be done.”

Source : War Poems (1919) "Everyone Sang"
“J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.”

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