"If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives."

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Source : Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.

Danny Glover

#Education Quotes #Children Quotes #Creativity Quotes

“Community means caring: caring for people. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: "He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community." A community is not an abstract ideal.”
“It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it.”

Source : John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.1
“The natural world is so adaptable...So adaptable you wonder what's natural.”
“Decriminalization would take the profit out of drugs and greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the drug-related violence that is currently plaguing our streets.”
“No word makes me happier than the word "daddy" when it's directed to me.”
“When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time".You have more potential than you believe you do.Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened.”
“In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature.”
“We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.”

Source : "Meditations of a Parish Priest" by Philibert Joseph Roux, translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., Part 9, LIV, 1886.

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