Inspiration is the richest nation I know, the most powerful on earth. Sexual energy Freud calls it; the capital of desire I call it; it pays for both mental and physical expenditure. Sylvia Ashton-Warner More Quotes by Sylvia Ashton-Warner More Quotes From Sylvia Ashton-Warner Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work. Sylvia Ashton-Warner informingquality You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself. Wise enough to be brave enough to be strong enough to shape yourself from what you actually are. Sylvia Ashton-Warner strongbravewise Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter. Sylvia Ashton-Warner visiontwochildren Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea. Sylvia Ashton-Warner consciouseducationideas No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide. Sylvia Ashton-Warner cuttingteachingjobs 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. Sylvia Ashton-Warner developmenteducationschool 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. Sylvia Ashton-Warner husbandmotherteacher There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity. Sylvia Ashton-Warner destructivenesscreativityanswers 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? Sylvia Ashton-Warner importantteachingway I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness. Sylvia Ashton-Warner teachertwoyears To feel as well as hear what someone says requires whole attention. Sylvia Ashton-Warner wellslisteningattention The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children. Sylvia Ashton-Warner truth-isaffairchildren Off fall the wife, the mother, the lover, the teacher, and the violent artist takes over. I am I alone. I belong to no one but myself. I mate with no one but the spirit. I own no land, have no kin, no friend or enemy. I have no road but this one. Sylvia Ashton-Warner motherteacherfall There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish. Sylvia Ashton-Warner crashheavenart Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence. Sylvia Ashton-Warner transcendencecreativityself I am my own Universe, I my own Professor. Sylvia Ashton-Warner professorsmy-ownuniverse When I teach people, I marry them. Sylvia Ashton-Warner teachingteacherpeople What a desire! ... to live in peace with that word: Myself. Sylvia Ashton-Warner desire-to-livedesire 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. Sylvia Ashton-Warner camouflageselforder I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned. Sylvia Ashton-Warner
