Senni

“Forget the past and all your fears. Think of the super fun
That we can have. I'd love to see the beach, a shell, the sun.
...
And Miffle knows, and Toffle knows, that both have seen the end
Of fear and fright and long, dark night, now each has found a friend”
― Tove Jansson, Who Will Comfort Toffle?

“It's not possible to read critically if one treats reading as if it were a similar operation to buying in bulk. What's the point of boasting of having read twenty books-twenty books! Really reading involves a kind of relationship with the text, which offers itself to me and to which I give myself and through the fundamental comprehension of which I undergo the process of becoming a subject. While reading, I'm not just a captive of the mind of the text as if it were simply a product of its author. This is a vitiated form of reading that has nothing to do with thinking or teaching correctly.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

“Kuitenkin puhutaan alinomaa naisen luontaisesta heikkoudesta, niin kuin muka esteenä hänen oikeuksiinsa pääsemiselle. Kasvatettakoon poikaa yhtä typerästi ja ahdasmielisesti kuin naista, puristettakoon nuorukainen kureuumiin ja katsottakoon, kuinka pitkälle hänellä voimia ja terveyttä riittää.”
― Minna Canth

“In essence, educators who refuse to transform the ugliness of human misery, social injustices, and inequalities, invariably become educators for domestication who, as Sartre so poignantly suggested, "will change nothing and will serve no one, but will succeed only in finding moral comfort in malaise.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Donalda Macelda