Quote for Today: Jonathan Safran Foer
I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince …
Quote for Today: Ashim Shanker
It is amazing how dispiriting it can be to enter a learning environment and to be made immediately to suppress your own exploratory inclinations. So many learning environments in the …
Quote for Today: Federico García Lorca
Floating Bridges Oh what a crush of People Invisible, reborn Make their way to into this garden For their eternal rest Every step we take on earth Brings us to …
Quote for Today: Michelle Alexander
The wave of punitiveness that washed over the United States with the rise of the drug war and the get tough movement really flooded our schools. Schools, caught up in …
Quote for Today: Lin-Manuel Miranda
You have to bring all of yourself into a room, not just the parts that fit in. —Lin-Manuel Miranda, at the America Adelante Conference, Harvard, 2018 Photo by Jorge Saavedra on Unsplash
Quote for Today: Susanna Clarke
There is nothing else in magic but the wild thought of the bird as it casts itself into the void. There is no creature upon the earth with such potential …
Quote for Today: Bell Hooks
To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter …
Quote for Today: Tertullian
The entire fruit is already present in the seed. —Tertullian Public Domain Image via Pixabay
Quote for Today: Bear Grylls
There is little faith involved in setting out on a journey where the destination is certain and every step in between has been mapped in detail. Bravery, trust, is about …
Quote for Today: Piper Payne
There is something beautiful about a blank canvas, the nothingness of the beginning that is so simple and breathtakingly pure. It’s the paint that changes its meaning and the hand …