kate

“The aim of education is to promote the self-realization of individuals by encouraging their growth through creativity, self-expression and wide-ranging experience, enabling them to reach full flower. These are progressive, child-centred aims, deriving from the connected values and the epistemology. The aims are purist, because they concern the development of the child for its own sake, as something for intrinsic value”
― Paul Ernest

“She slapped her desk with the palm of her hand. Now this was auditing. If only her father could see her now. “Auditing?” he had said, when she had told him about her plans for grad school. “Auditing?” He said the word like it left a sour taste in his mouth. “That’s worse than accounting, Imala. You’re not even counting beans. You’re checking to make sure someone else counted beans. That’s the most pointless, fruitless, meaningless career anyone could possibly choose. You’re smarter than that. You can do anything. Don’t waste your life being a bean-counter checker.”
But oh how wrong Father was. Auditing was what made everything work. Without auditing, we’d live in financial barbarism. Markets would collapse. Banks would break. The whole system would crash.”
― Orson Scott Card, Earth Unaware

“The more the problem was analysed the sillier the solutions became”
― John Hostettler, Hanging in the Balance: A History of the Abolition of Capital Punishment in Britain

“Her hands are like my mother's hands but there is something else in them too, something I have never felt before and have no name for. I feel at such a loss for words but this is a new place, and new words are needed.”
― Claire Keegan, Foster