"Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools."

-- Warren Farrell

#Father Quotes #School Quotes #Math Quotes

“Under the lean system, any tools which are required for solving problems are used.”

Source : Source: blog.deming.org
“If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!”
“Atheism ... that bugbear of women and fools ... is the very top and perfection of free-thinking. It is the grand arcanum to which a true genius naturally riseth, by a certain climax or gradation of thought, and without which he can never possess his soul in absolute liberty and repose.”
“People crave attention and appreciation more than they do bread.”
“We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.”
“As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying.”
“Grandpa ... was ever ready to cheer and help me, ever sure that I was a remarkable specimen. He was a dear old man who asked little from life and got less.”

Source : Miles Franklin (2017). “Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years”, p.66, ETT Imprint
“And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority - especially so when governments and politicians take us to war, when they have decided that they will kill and others will die.”

Source : "The Great War for Civilization". Book by Robert Fisk, 2005.

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