THERE IS A LAND OF THE LIVING AND A LAND OF THE DEAD & THE BRIDGE IS LOVE, THE ONLY SURVIVAL, THE ONLY MEANING.
THORTON WILDER
LIFE IS BETTER WHEN YOU’RE LAUGHING.
THE TOTAL NUMBER OF MINDS IN THE UNIVERSE IS ONE. IN FACT, CONSCIOUSNESS IS A SINGULARITY PHRASING WITHIN ALL BEINGS. ERWIN SCHRODINGER
OUTER CONFLICTS REFLECT OUR INNER STRUGGLES. Resolving them propels us toward harmonious relations with others. SHUBRAJI
IF YOU HAVE KNOWLEDGE, let others light their candles in it. MARGARET FULLER
HOWARD DEAN 1948—FORMER GOVERNOR OF VERMONT.
I HATE REPUBLICANS AND EVERYTHING THEY STAND FOR . . .
THE REASON that Republicans are such failures at governing is because they place the interests of their party ahead of the interests of the country.
WE WILL ULTiMATELY BE JUDDGED by how we react in times of trouble and how we care for the least among us.
YOU HAVE THE POWER TO TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK.
WE KNOW that no one person can succeed unless everybody else succeeds.
FROM a religious point of view if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.
THE PATH to a better future goes directly through our public schools. The great equalizer in our society — a free and equal public education.
AT EVERY TURN when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.
AMERICA is a conservative country with a small”c” — they want change, but they don’t want too much change too fast.
THE ISSUE IS NOT ABORTION, The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some right-wing pastor, some right-wing politician telling them what to do.
I WILL USE whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy.
LEV VYGOTSKY 1896-1934 “Encyclopedia of Child Behavior”.
A MIND CANNOT BE INDEPENDENT OF CULTURE.
A CHILD’S greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.
IN PLAY a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior; in play, it is as though he were a head taller than himself.
IT IS POSSIBLE not only to be talented in one’s thoughts but also to be talented in one’s feelings as well.
THE MOST SIGNIFICANT MOMENT in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract intelligence, occurs when speech and practical activity, two previously completely independent lines of development converge.
LOVE can reach the same level of talent and even genius as the discovery of differential calculus.
THERE IS A REASON to believe that voluntary activity, more than highly developed intellect, distinguishes humans from the animals which stand closest to them.
THE TEACHER must adopt the role of facilitators not content provider.
BY GIVING our students practice in talking with others, we give them frames for sinking on their own.