On those visits, my mother and I walked in together but as soon as we passed through the door, we split up and each headed to our favorite section. The library might have been the first place I was ever given autonomy.
“Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.”
― Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
― Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
“remember passing our once-beautiful large synagogue, which had not been used for many years now, and seeing a woman leaning against the wall wailing, just crying out in agony. She looked to me like a branch dismembered from a tree, an arm without a body, a mind filled with grief, a bleeding heart, a walking tragedy. I hurried away, afraid of being swept up into her grief.”
― Alicia: My Story
― Alicia: My Story
“Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love, but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy”
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“Whatever the anxiety is based upon, one of the best ways to minimize the anxiety of change—or any other anxiety—is to actively participate in the process of that change, i.e., to do something.” She declared it is necessary to become actively involved in the change rather than passively accepting and accommodating it.7 By”
― Montessori Comes to America: The Leadership of Maria Montessori and Nancy McCormick Rambusch
― Montessori Comes to America: The Leadership of Maria Montessori and Nancy McCormick Rambusch
“Not every problem is a crisis, a plague, or an epidemic, and among the things that happen in the world is that people solve the problems confronting them.”
― Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
― Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
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