quotes about Unschooling

“Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.”

“Writing is work and cooking is relaxing.”

“You were trying to tell me something and I was trying to tell you something else. We didn't trust each other and that was reason enough to make each of us right.”

Source : Elliot Perlman (1999). “The Reasons I Won't be Coming: Stories”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

“A Christian is nothing more than a sinner who has found out their sinfulness, and has learned the blessed secret of living by faith in Christ.”

“Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.”

“Highlighting expensive repair costs to your vendor can also be a powerful negotiating tool.”

“The Germans have a word for it: Sitzfleisch. Staying power. Winning by sticking your ***** to the seat and not leaving until after it's over.”

“I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme that has attracted attention.”

“Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood.”

Source : Mary Rakow (2015). “The Memory Room: A Novel”, p.303, Counterpoint

“Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?... Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?... The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking-not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”