Ashley Epp

“Children are born with varying levels of talent and intelligence, but possessing natural smarts and skills is no guarantee of success. It takes more than that: it takes work on the part of parents and teachers to cultivate these qualities, to instill in children the drive and character necessary to translate their natural gifts into extraordinary results.”
― Rafe Esquith, Lighting Their Fires: Raising Extraordinary Children in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World

“In schools today, on paper it may appear that kids are learning skills but in reality they are only renting them, soon to forget what they've learned over the weekend or summer vacation.”
― Rafe Esquith

“Lasting social and cultural change is spread by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.”
― Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues

“And what is that nightmare, Craig?
Life.
Life is a nightmare.
Yes.”
― Ned Vizzini