Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Sylvia Constance Ashton-Warner MBEwas a New Zealand writer, poet and educator...
NationalityNew Zealander
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth17 December 1908
Sylvia Ashton-Warner quotes about
quality informing
Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work.
education ideas conscious
Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.
teacher volcanoes years
I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.
professors my-own universe
I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.
creativity answers destructiveness
There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity.
education school development
we already have so much pressure towards sameness through radio, film and comic outside the school, that we can't afford to do a thing inside that is not toward individual development ...
circumstances corners
It's just as possible to live to the full in a narrow corner as it is in bigness.
creativity self transcendence
Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence ...
listening attention wells
To feel as well as hear what someone says requires whole attention.
suffering steps goodbye-love
When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another step.
wealth
What can be heavier than wealth than freedom?
spring comforting contagious
A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager.
people marry-me teach
When I teach people, I marry them.
self order camouflage
How much of my true self I camouflage and choke in order to commend myself to him, denying the fullness of me. How often have I paraded sweetness and interest when I felt otherwise; pretended to take careful leave of him on many an occasion when I would rather have walked right out. How I've toned myself down, diluted myself to maintain his approval.