31 Quotes About Flowers-for-algernon

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

It's paradoxical that an ordinary man like Nemur presumes to devote himself to making other people geniuses. He would like to be thought of as the discoverer of new laws of learning—the Einstein of psychology. And he has the teacher's fear of being surpassed by the student, the master's dread of having the disciple discredit his work.

Հաշվետվությոուն 10Ապրիլ 14- Վերջացրեցի Ռոբինզոն Կրուզոն: Ուզումեմ իմանալ, թե հետո ինչ է լինում իր հետ, բայց միսս Կինիանն ասում է, որ վերջ այսքանն է: Ինչու:

Algernon is so smart he has to solve a problem with a lock that changes every time he goes in to eat so he has to lern something new to get his food. That made me sad because if he coulnt lern he wouldnt be able to eat and he would be hungry.

And now - Plato's words mock me in the shadows on the ledge behind the flames: '...the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes.

The most important thing had always been what other people thought-appearances before herself or her family. And righteous about it. Time and again Matt had insisted that what others thought about you wasn't the only thing in life. But it did no good. Norma had to dress well; the house had to have fine furniture; Charlie had to be kept inside so that other people wouldn't know anything was wrong.

I felt like that character in Flowers for Algernon. Not Charlie, the lady teacher from the college who realizes, 'I've got to stop dry-humping this mentally challenged guy!

Why am I always looking at life through a window?

The only question now is: How much can I hang on to?