Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Quotations

1. "So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays." 

2. "We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. So medicine, law, business, engineering... these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love... these are what we stay alive for."
N.H. Kleinbaum (Dead Poets Society

3."Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary. "
— John Keating (Dead Poets Society)

4. "When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling."
John Taylor Gatto

5. "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
Mark Twain

6. "Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status."
Ken Robinson

7. "If you are not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original."
Ken Robinson

1 comment:

  1. Good choice of quotes. They all have a positive aspect to them.

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