41 Quotes by Sylvia Ashton-Warner

I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.

Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.

No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.

not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money ...

Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work.

Love has the quality of informing almost everything – even one’s work.

It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say, what’s the good of it if not heard or, being heard, not felt?

I’ve got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned.

When love turns away, now, I don’t follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another step.