“Each minute bursts in the burning room,The great globe reels in the solar fire,Spinning the trivial and unique away.(How all things flash! How all things flare!)What am I now that I was then?May memory restore again and againThe smallest color of the smallest day:Time is the school in which we learn,Time is the fire in which we burn.” MaySchoolMemoriesRoomsFireMinutesColorUniqueAll ThingsBurningFlashSmallestGlobesSpinningFlare Author:Delmore Schwartz
“The world is colors and motion, feelings and thoughts and what does math have to do with it? Not much, if 'math' means being bored in high school, but in truth mathematics is the one universal science. Mathematics is the study of pure pattern and everything in the cosmos is a kind of pattern.” IfsWorldKindMeanDoeFeelingsSchoolStudyColorPureHigh SchoolUniversalMathematicsPatternsMathBoredCosmosBeing Bored Book:Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality Source: Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality
“I don't wear any make-up on normal days and at school. But, if I'm going somewhere, I always do something with my eyes - crazy colors, sparkles. I'm all for it. I love experimenting.” IfsEyeSchoolCrazyColorNormalSparkle Author:Elle Fanning
“I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly regarded the church as an institution which defended such evils as slavery, color caste, exploitation of labor and war.” YearsWarSchoolLastsEvilChurchTeachColorLaborDiedInstitutionsSlaverySundayCreedsExploitationCastesSunday School Author:W. E. B. Du Bois