"There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are."

-- Jonathan Kozol

#Teaching Quotes #School Quotes #People Quotes

“Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness”
“To some people, surrender may have negative connotations, implying defeat, giving up, failing to rise to the challenges of life, becoming lethargic, and so on. True surrender, however, is something entirely different. It does not mean to passively put up with whatever situation you find yourself in and to do nothing about it. Nor does it mean to cease making plans or initiating positive action. Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.”
“Anything's possible. I am the proof.”
“Always remember, money is a servant; youÂ are the master. Be very careful not to reverse that equation, because many people of high intelligenceÂ have already done so, to their great detriments.Â Unfortunately, many of these poor souls loved moneyÂ and used people, which violated one of the most basicÂ laws governing true financial success. You shouldÂ always love people and use money, rather than theÂ reverse!”
“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”
“School is just like having a job. You have to show up, you have to do your work, and you have to be around tons of idiots or mean people. Now that I think about it, it's worse than having a job. At least there you get paid.”
“There is no meaning if meaning is not shared, and not because there would be an ultimate or first signification that all beings have in common, but because meaning is itself the sharing of Being.”

Source : Jean-Luc Nancy (2000). “Being Singular Plural”, p.2, Stanford University Press
“When we signed with Warner Bros., they knew what they were getting. They knew they weren't going to get some easily manipulated prepackaged pop group. That was not going to happen. What they wanted, I think, was the integrity that we had to offer. What they wanted was the kind of street cred or cache that R.E.M. could bring to them and the chance that we would give them a hit or two. What happened was we gave them a bunch of hits. And we became huge.”

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