Today is the birthday of the following people:
Maria Montessori (1870 – 1952):
“Imagination does not become
great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to
create.”
and
“Our care of the child should
be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor
always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.”
and
“It is not enough for the
teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She
must prepare herself, and truly work at it.”
and
“Establishing lasting peace is
the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.”
William Saroyan (1908 – 1981):
“The most solid advice for a
writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food
when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be
wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when
you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon
enough.”
and
“It takes a lot of rehearsing
for a man to be himself.”
Daniel Schorr (1916 – 2010):
“I have no doubt that the
nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The
government takes good care of itself.”
Eldridge Cleaver (1935 – 1998):
“If you are not a part of the
solution, you are a part of the problem.”
and
“The price of hating other
human beings is loving oneself less.”
Van Morrison (1945 - ):
“Music is spiritual. The music
business is not.”
