“The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it's not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what has happened. The teachers can't teach and administrators run the place and nobody can be fired. It's terrible.” RunningTurnsTeachTeacherHappenedWorstTerribleUnionsWorst ThingsBureaucracyAdministratorsMeritocracy Author:Steve Jobs
“Tho' the world could turn from you, This, at least, I learn from you: Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought, The singer, upward-springing, Is grander than his singing, And tranquil self-sufficing joy illumes the dark of thought. This, at least, you teach me, In a revelation: That gods still snatch, as worthy death, the soul in its aspiration.” WorldStillsSoulSelfJoyTurnsFoundDarkTeachSingingWorthySingersAspirationRevelationsTranquil Book:Undertones Source: Undertones
“Thinking isn't something you think about. It comes naturally. Thinking involves many things. It involves being an observer. It involves analyzing things, taking in what's around you in the world and finding how to make it inspire your work or turn it into a lesson to teach your children; it's paying attention to details. That's what thinking is: processing.” ThinkingWorldChildrenTurnsAttentionTeachInspireLessonsFindingsOur ChildrenDetailsPay AttentionYour ChildrenObserversProcessingAnalyzingAttention To Detail Author:Madonna Ciccone
“O drink is mighty! secrets it unlocks, Turns hope to fact, sets cowards on to box, Takes burdens from the careworn, finds out parts In stupid folks, and teaches unknown arts. What tongue hangs fire when quickened by the bowl? What wretch so poor but wine expands his soul?” ArtSoulFactsTurnsPoorSecretTeachFireStupidDrinkWineFolksBoxesBurdenTongueCowardBowls Book:Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)
“All literature is written by the old to teach the young how to express themselves so that they in turn may write literature to teach the old how to express themselves. All literature is written by mentally precocious adolescents and by mentally precocious senescents.” WritingMayYoungTurnsLiteratureTeachWrittenPrecocious Author:Laura Riding
“What is any political campaign save a concerted effort to turn out a set of politicians who are admittedly bad and put in a set who are thought to be better. The former assumption, I believe is always sound; the latter is just as certainly false. For if experience teaches us anything at all it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.” IfsBelievePoliticalTurnsI BelieveSoundEffortTeachDemocracyHonestPoliticianCampaignsFormerAssumptionLatterUnthinkableBurglarsPolitical CampaignGood Politicians Book:PREJUDICES A SELECTION Source: PREJUDICES A SELECTION
“There is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, "That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults." Common experience teaches the contrary. Wine throws a man out of himself, and infuses dualities into the mind which she is a stranger to in her sober moments.” MenMindDoeMomentsTurnsCommonTeachProduceWineFaultsStrangerContrarySoberDualityDrunkennessIntemperanceCommon Experience Author:Joseph Addison
“Whatever efforts one may make, one must revert to the realization that religion is the real basis of morality; religion is the real and perceptible purpose within us, which alone, can turn aside our attention from things. ... The science of morality can no more teach human beings to be honest, in all the magnificence of this word, than geometry can teach one how to draw.” HumansMayRealPurposeTurnsHuman BeingsEffortAttentionTeachHonestMoralityDrawsBasesRealizationBeing HonestGeometryMagnificence Author:Madame de Stael
“There is an exercise I teach at colleges: Get yourself a canvas and a bunch of acrylics and go into a very dimly lighted room. Dip a brush into one of the colors, slap it on the canvas, don't look, close your eyes, make a painting, don't look, turn the lights on and see what you've got. I think this releases people from the editor in their life that's always standing over their shoulder saying, "Oh, you don't have any talent; who do you think you are?"” PeopleThinkingLooksLightEyeTurnsRoomsTeachTalentCollegeColorPaintingExerciseStandingShouldersBunchReleaseEditorsCanvasBrushesSlapDip Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie
“I always feed myself positivity. I turn to anything that teaches good, that teaches strength, and that you can make it. I swear to you that those kinds of thoughts come alive in your body and in anything you touch because your energy goes into everything you touch, everything you share and everything you speak. So, it's most important that you surround yourself with positivity always, and have it in your mind at all times.” MindKindImportantBodyTurnsEnergySpeakTeachAliveSharePositivityYour BodyAll TimeSurroundSwearSurround Yourself Author:Tyler Perry