"In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song."

-- Lewis H. Lapham

#Song Quotes #Garden Quotes #Delight Quotes

“Education is dangerous - Every educated person is a future enemy.”
“I've always been obsessed with drums. They fascinate me. Any other instrument - nothing. I play acoustic guitar a bit. But it's always been drums first and foremost. I don't reckon on this Jack-of-all-trades thing. I thing that felling is a lot more important than technique. It's all very well doing a triple paradiddle - but who's going to know you've done it? If you play technically you sound like everybody else. It's being original that counts.”
“There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.”
“Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems.”
“Most of us would protest that of course we love our children without any strings attached. But what counts is how things look from the perspective of the children”

Source : Alfie Kohn (2011). “Feel-bad Education: And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling”, p.159, Beacon Press
“On a practical level, I'm uncomfortable at comedy clubs because there are so many shitty dude comics who have made my life miserable. If I go to a comedy club and I look around, I don't know which of the dudes lining the wall told me that I was too fat to get raped. It makes me nauseous. But that was a couple years ago, and meanwhile, comedy has changed a lot.”
“Perhaps there is no greater test of a man's regularity and easiness of conscience than his readiness to face the postman. Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound of a rat-tat! The good are eager for it; but the naughty tremble at the sound thereof.”
“My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them.”

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