When I teach people, I marry them.
Sylvia Ashton Warner
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.
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I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions
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The truth is that I am enslaved.. In one vast love affair with 70 children.
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God, the illogic! The impossibility of communication in this house. The sheer operation alone of getting something through to somebody.
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I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned.
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Love has the quality of informing almost everything -- even one's work.
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I see the mind of the 5-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.
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I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.
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As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly.
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