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Elizabeth Missing Sewell
"A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature." --
Source : Elizabeth Missing Sewell (1866). “Principles of Education, Drawn from Nature and Revelation, and Applied to Female Education in the Upper Classes”, p.397
Elizabeth Missing Sewell
#Girl Quotes
#Knowledge Quotes
#Boys Quotes
“Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days. I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school.”
“When you chop wood, chips fly.”
“For the gentle werelibrarian, who's strictly vegetarian, there's nothing like Tofillager the MEATLESS TOFU VILLAGER”
“In a Giraffe institution, the head nurse job would be to serve the nurses, not to control them. Teachers are there to serve the students, not control them.”
“If you have to have 25 French paratroopers to guard a single synagogue, it means that life is not healthy in France for Jews”
“I only mean forty per cent of what I say.”
“Poetry transcends the nation-state. Poetry transcends government. It brings the traditional concept of power to its knees. I have always believed poetry to be an eternal conversation in which the ancient poets remain contemporary, a conversation inviting us into other languages and cultures even as poetry transcends language and culture, returning us again and again to primal rhythms and sounds.”
“I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks.”
Source : Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Reasons of the heart”
