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
children night yesterday
As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly.
thinking done eating
I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions.
children two vision
Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter.
circumstances corners
It's just as possible to live to the full in a narrow corner as it is in bigness.
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 ...
creativity answers destructiveness
There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity.
children affair truth-is
The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.
art heaven crash
There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.
professors my-own universe
I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.
teaching important way
It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say, what's the good of it if not heard or, being heard, not felt?
teacher volcanoes years
I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.
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.
quality informing
Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work.
mother teacher husband
not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money ...