"To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive."

-- John Dewey

#Teaching Quotes #Learning Quotes #Care Quotes

“Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve.”
“And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't think you know her story, because she will confound you over and over again. She may be an engineer or a diplomat or a doctor. Or she may be an unbelievable babe with bleached hair down to her waist.”
“A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.”
“Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls.”
“Your reader is at least as bright as you are”
“Everything I've done I've done with enthusiasm and passion.”

Source : Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2011.
“I always look forward to going for a walk in Rushcutters Bay Park, right down to the bottom where you can look in the clear water of the harbour. I use that time to clear my head and really focus my thoughts.”
“The way you can understand all of the Social Media is as the creation of a new kind of public space.”

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