This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden
A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.
Adolescence | Aesthetic | Authority | Duty | Learning | Little | Looks | Man | Nature | Need | Peace | Pleasure | Reading | Taste | War | Work | Learn |
W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden
When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.
W. E. B. Du Bois, fully William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.
W. E. B. Du Bois, fully William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
All men cannot go to college but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have for the talented few centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living, as to have no aims higher than their bellies, and no God greater than Gold.
Contempt | Ideals | Looks | Revelation | Self | Sense | Soul | Strength | World |
W. W. Sawyer, fully Walter Warwick Sawyer
We are all of us imprisoned in our habits. The essential of education is to foster correct habits. It is easier for a mentally defective child to develop the rhythm of research than it is for a normally intelligent adult who has been subjected to fifteen years of parrot learning.
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W. W. Sawyer, fully Walter Warwick Sawyer
Education is essentially the direction of mental energy. Children have abundant energy looking for an outlet. If adult society provides a satisfactory outlet, hobbies develop into professions and adults find life in their work. If adult society fails in providing an outlet, a double disaster occurs. The child has no energy or enthusiasm for work; and the child's energies are left to find an outlet at random. Society has then abdicated its duty to educate.
W. W. Sawyer, fully Walter Warwick Sawyer
My concern has always been to promote joy in mathematics for all-ability pupils, and the driving force has been a feeling that must be shared by anyone who has derived great pleasure from any subject - intense regret that the subject in question is so often presented in a way that produces dislike, worry and a sense of failure.
W. W. Sawyer, fully Walter Warwick Sawyer
The main task of any teacher is to make a subject interesting.
Duty | Energy | Teacher | Understand |
W. W. Sawyer, fully Walter Warwick Sawyer
The practical value of mathematics lies in the fact that a single mathematical truth has a multitude of applications. If children can handle numbers with confidence and enthusiasm, they will be able to apply arithmetic to any situation that later life may bring.
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W. W. Sawyer, fully Walter Warwick Sawyer
Mathematicians, it is often said, tend to be musical. It is less well known that problems arising from music have played an important role in the discovery of fundamental mathematical ideas. Questions about the vibrations of a piano string led to a fierce controversy that forced mathematicians to clarify their ideas about area, continuity, and the convergence of series.
Education | Knowledge | Nothing | Opportunity | Will | Trouble | Teacher |
Vivienne Westwood, born Vivienne Isabel Swire
I thought Sex And The City was supposed to be about cutting-edge fashion and there was nothing remotely memorable or interesting about what I saw...I went to the premiere and left after ten minutes.
Vivienne Westwood, born Vivienne Isabel Swire
There's this idea that somehow you've got to keep changing things, and as often as possible. Maybe if people just decided not to buy anything for a while, they'd get a chance to think about what they wanted; what they really liked.
Vincent van Gogh, fully Vincent Willem van Gogh
When I have a model who is quiet and steady and with whom I am acquainted, then I draw repeatedly 'til there is one drawing that is different from the rest, which does not look like an ordinary study, but more typical and with more feeling.
Vincent van Gogh, fully Vincent Willem van Gogh
I can very well in life, and also in painting, deprive of God, but I cannot, suffering, depriving me of something bigger than me, it's my life, the power to create. And if frustrated in this power physical, seeks to create thoughts instead of children, should also be admitted into humanity.
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Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by.