Off fall the wife, the mother, the lover, the teacher, and the violent artist takes over. I am I alone. I belong to no one but myself. I mate with no one but the spirit. I own no land, have… — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It… — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
Inspiration is the richest nation I know, the most powerful on earth. Sexual energy Freud calls it; the capital of desire I call it;… — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as… — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
... of the two kinds of order, the conscious and the unconscious order, only one is real. It's the order in the deep hidden places. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another step. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself.… — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
