Sylvia Ashton-Warner Quotes

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• I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.
• There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity.
• It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say,…
• 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,…
• You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself. Wise…
• When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another step.
• 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 I…
• A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager.
• When I teach people, I marry them.
• Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine, which, being balanced people, they cannot supply.
• The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.
• I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions.
• I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.
• I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned.
• As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly.
• Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work.

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