"We urgently need a paradigm shift in our concept of the purposes and practices of education. We need to leave behind the concept of education as a passport to more money and higher status in the future and replace it with a concept of education as an ongoing process that enlists the tremendous energies and creativity of schoolchildren in rebuilding and respiriting our communities and our cities now, in the present."

-- Grace Lee Boggs

#Creativity Quotes #Practice Quotes #Cities Quotes

“We are only here for a little while, and our bodies belong to ourselves and no one else.”
“Big book, a big bore.”
“I'm just enjoying playing baseball in the major leagues.”
“Mom could say that in hindsight, but it seemed to me that when you were in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God's will and what wasn't.”
“I guess my claim to fame is I've now gaveled Ted Kennedy to order twice.”
“Every creature is a divine word because it proclaims God”
“If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term "masterpiece" to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a notion of perfection: a notion that leads to much confusion when applied to artists other than those who made perfection their ideal.”
“Nature soon takes over if the gardener is absent.”

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