"It is no longer enough to simply read and write. Students must also become literate in the understanding of visual images. Our children must learn how to spot a stereotype, isolate a social cliche, and distinguish facts from propaganda, analysis from banter and important news from coverage."

-- Ernest L. Boyer

#Children Quotes #Writing Quotes #Learning Quotes

“Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse).”
“He kissed me desperately, like a drowning man and I was his oxygen.”
“The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.”
“We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.”
“As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.”
“Peace and love, peace and love!”

Source : Song: I Wanna Be Your Man, Album: Choose Love, 2005
“I'm like part of the Kurt Cobain school of writing lyrics, which is the syntax of the words is more important than... is where it all comes from.”
“The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.”

Source : James C. Scott (1990). “Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts”, p.142, Yale University Press

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