“Ordinary people send their children to school to get smart, but what modern schooling teaches is dumbness.”
Source: The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling
“When you come across difficult mountains, remember that God has given you grace. You can face them with courage.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“A family is fragile. It is destroyed by this kind of violence. The things a child needs - really needs - must be actively, attentively sought. Listening. Patience. Deep time.”
Source: Dog Gone: A Lost Pet's Extraordinary Journey and the Family Who Brought Him Home
“Unceasing competition for official favor in the dramatic fish bowl of a classroom delivers cowardly children, little people sunk in chronic boredom, little people with no apparent purpose for being alive.”
Source: The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling
“Trapped children, like trapped rats, need close management.”
Source: The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling
“Time is mercurial when you’re with children. A whole morning making pancakes and playing freeze tag goes by in a minute, whereas waiting for Jasper to tie his shoes or catch up on his bike is endless.”
Source: Writers & Lovers
“Il était beau d'une manière singulière, presque surnaturelle, vaguement inquiétante. Et la grâce avec laquelle il volait, outrepassant les lois de la physique - en quoi un enfant dans son genre serait-il concerné par ces lois si ennuyeuses ? - ne le rendait que plus magique.”
Source: Tant que vole la poussière
“The glorious Father love all his children without favouritism.”
“if children weren’t so childish,
i’d have children
but that doesn’t even matter
i love children
but i don’t want to acc have any”
Source: The Breast Mountains Of All Time
“Addison parades with many other little Falleras to the feet of the Virgin and sets down her bouquet. This moment fills her with emotion. There is an intense, delicious smell of flowers in the plaza and the Falleras are absolutely beautiful.”
Source: Addison at the Festival of Las Fallas