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Time rushes by and yet time is frozen. Funny how we get so exact about time at the end of life and at its beginning. She died at 6...:08 or 3:46, we say, or the baby was born at 4:02. But in between we slosh through huge swatches of time--weeks, months, years, decades even.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women. ...These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Educatio...n should start earlier than age seven, within the family. It should not be so hard as to give the child an aversion to learning. Rather, these early lessons would take the form of play--that embryonic notion of kindergarten.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Quintilian [educational writer in Rome about A.D. 100] hoped that teachers would be sensitive to individual differences of tempera...ment and ability. . . . Beating, he thought, was usually unnecessary. A teacher who had made the effort to understand his pupil's individual needs and character could probably dispense with it: "I will content myself with saying that children are helpless and easily victimized, and that therefore no one should be given unlimited power over them."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rev. J.D. Liddell: The Kingdom of God is not a democracy. The Lord never seeks re- election. There's no discussion. No deliberatio...n. No referenda as to which road to take. There's one right, one wrong. One absolute ruler. Sandy: A dictator, you mean. Rev. J.D. Liddell: Aye, but a benign, loving dictator.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To-morrow I will have finished four-score years. I have lived to rise from the most despised and hated woman in all the world of f...ifty years ago, until now it seems as if I am loved by you all. If this is true, then I am indeed satisfied.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »