A positive learning climate in a school for young children is a composite of many things. It is an attitude that respects children.... It is a place where children receive guidance and encouragement from the responsible adults around them. It is an environment where children can experiment and try out new ideas without fear of failure. It is an atmosphere that builds children's self-confidence so they dare to take risks. It is an environment that nurtures a love of learning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Although I mean it, and project the meaning As hard as I can into its brushed-metal surface,... It cannot, in this deteriorating climate, pick up Where I leave off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For one who lived among enemies so long: If often he was wrong and at times absurd,... To us he is no more a person Now but a whole climate of opinion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilisation; like the gentle air of a genial climate,... it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No Raven's wing can stretch the flight so far As the torn bandrols of Napoleon's war.... Choose then your climate, fix your best abode, He'll make you deserts and he'll bring you blood. How could you fear a dearth? have not mankind, Tho slain by millions, millions left behind? Has not conscription still the power to weild Her annual faulchion o'er the human field? A faithful harvester!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts: it has flowed forward. Rome is a ...continuity, called "eternal." What has accumulated in this place acts on everyone, day and night, like an extra climate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ghosts, we hope, may be always with us--that is, never too far out of the reach of fancy. On the whole, it would seem they adapt t...hemselves well, perhaps better than we do, to changing world conditions--they enlarge their domain, shift their hold on our nerves, and, dispossessed of one habitat, set up house in another. The universal battiness of our century looks like providing them with a propitious climate ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »