Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Zona Gale

Quote by Zona Gale

Work

Yellow gentians and blue

This book is a literary exploration of the interplay between the natural world and the complexities of human feelings, featuring yellow gentians and blue as central motifs. more

Author

Zona Gale
Zona Gale

Zona Gale (1874-1938) was an American author and playwright who made history as the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Born in Wisconsin, she began her career as a journalist before transitioning to fiction and playwriting. Her groundbreaking play "Miss Lulu Bett" earned her the Pulitzer Prize in 1921, marking a significant milestone for women in American theater. Beyond drama, Gale authored numerous novels and short story collections, often exploring themes of women's experiences and social reform. Active in progressive movements, she was a strong advocate for women's suffrage. Gale passed away in Florida in 1938 at the age of 64, leaving a lasting legacy in American literature and theater. more

You May Also Like

“We believe that arithmetic as it has been taught in grade schools until quite recently has such a meagre intellectual content that the oft-noted reaction against the subject is not an unfortunate rebellion against a difficult subject, but a perfectly proper response to a preoccupation with triviality.”

BelieveHas BeensSchoolDifficultSubjectsTaughtIntellectualResponseReactionsGradesRebellionUnfortunatePreoccupationArithmeticTrivialityFormal EducationGrades In SchoolDifficult Subjects
Author:Lynn Steen
Create image

“Sure, some [teachers] could give the standard limit definitions, but they [the students] clearly did not understand the definitions - and it would be a remarkable student who did, since it took mathematicians a couple of thousand years to sort out the notion of a limit, and I think most of us who call ourselves professional mathematicians really only understand it when we start to teach the stuff, either in graduate school or beyond.”

ThinkingGivingYearsWould BeSchoolStuffTeachTeacherStudentsCoupleThousandLimitsStandardsNotionDefinitionsRemarkableGraduatesMathematicianThousand YearsGraduate SchoolFormal Education
Author:Keith Devlin
Create image

“A considreable portion of my high school trigonometry course was devoted to the solution of oblique triangles... I have still not had an excuse for using my talents for solving oblique triangles. If a professional mathematician never uses these dull techniques in a highly varied career, why must all high school students devote several weeks to the subject?”

IfsStillsUseSchoolCoursesCareersWeekSubjectsTalentStudentsSolutionsHigh SchoolExcuseTechniqueDullPortionsDevotedMathematicianTrianglesFormal EducationHigh School StudentsTrigonometry
Author:John G. Kemeny
Create image

“As an innovation... the establishment of Free Schools was the boldest ever promulgated, since the commencement of the Christian era... Time has ratified its soundness. Two centuries proclaim it to be as wise as it was courageous, as beneficient as it was disinterested. It was one of those grand mental and moral experiments... The sincerity of our gratitude must be tested by our efforts to perpetuate and improve what they established. The gratitude of the lips only is an unholy offering.”

TwoSchoolChristianEffortMoralWiseCenturyGratitudeInnovationLipsExperimentsErasCourageousSincerityEstablishmentOfferingTestedCommencementDisinterestedFormal EducationSoundness
Author:Horace Mann
Create image

“This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets. Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.”

PeopleMayExampleReturnSucceedBuiltInvestingFinancialDecadesPassiveConsistentlyPersistAbnormalFinancial MarketsConfiguration
Author:Alan Greenspan
Create image