Don't ever forget this!
I was a Susie (the girl in the comic strip) when I was in school. I usually had read all my text books by the end of the first week and what I found interesting in them I researched further, going to the library and checking out other books on the topics. I never studied and never took notes. But I listened intently to what the teacher said and often asked questions -- not to be a show-off or apple-polisher, but to clarify a point. I can only recall one bad teacher, a Spanish teacher in high school. He mostly talked about current events rather than teaching us Spanish. I enjoyed his class very much, but he got fired. His replacement was excellent at teaching us Spanish, but she took a fighting bull sculpture I had made and brought to class to show, as part of a demonstration that we could explain a subject in Spanish, and she never gave it back. Geez. If she had asked for it, I would have given it to her. But she just took it. So I made another, better one. It long ago disappeared in some move, and now I no longer have the knack for sculpting. Sometimes I think I should get back into it, but I never have.
Overheard: "The only people who support abortion have already been born."
Who knew "fear"was an acronym for "Forget Everything And Run"?
Overheard: "If you sit him in the corner & repeatedly say “But we’ve always done it this way” he will curl up in a ball & sob uncontrollably"
"How long, how long must I regret?
I never found my people yet;
I go about, but cannot find
The blood-relations of the mind."
~ Ruth Pitter
Overheard: " I wouldn't piss on this world if it was on fire."
“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
― George Orwell
"When you have a concentration of power in a few hands, inevitably men with the mentality of gangsters get control.”
~ Lord Acton
"A year from now you will wish you had started today."
~ Karen Lamb
American immigration policy in 50 seconds:
“I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility, and murder.”
~ Werner Herzog
"The oppressed don't fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power — power to oppress others. They want to retaliate."
~ Eric Hoffer
«Les hommes, lorsqu'ils s'adressent aux dieux, ne savent pas que c’est pour leur malheur, le plus souvent, que les dieux les exaucent.»
~ André Gide
