"I want to clarify that one doesn't need to be a scientist or have fancy college degrees to know the truth about the health of our children, our communities, and the planet. Community members generally know far more about the health of their own communities than visiting "experts," yet that knowledge is often discredited because of another story that we tell ourselves: "real" education happens [only] in the halls of universities."

-- Annie Leonard

#Children Quotes #Real Quotes #College Quotes

“Kissing tends to bring on woolgathering, even amnesia.”

Source : Faith Baldwin (1972). “One more time”, Holt McDougal
“I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.”
“In an ideal world, entertainment would be regarded as what it is - entertainment - and wouldn't be valued more heavily than education, than science, than environmental awareness.”
“Destiny doesn't exist. It's God we need, and fast.”

Source : Adélia Prado (2011). “The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems”, p.3, Wesleyan University Press
“Nothing serves life and soundness of body so well, nor is so necessary as the smoke of the royal plant, tobacco.”
“Every student deserves to be treated as a potential genius.”

Source : Anton Ehrenzweig (1967). “The Hidden Order of Art: A Study in the Psychology of Artistic Imagination”, p.107, Univ of California Press
“It is flat-out strange that something-that anything-is happening at all. There was nothing then a Big Bang, then here we all are. This is extremely weird.”
“We perform the show for the people that are in the room and then that performance is theirs forever and ever.”

Source : Interview with Paulette Beete, www.arts.gov. June 16, 2014.

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