Cat Quotes - Page 37

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head.

There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it.

DMT was a gaseous wax that you could smoke that gave you a 20-minute psychedelic high. You'd inhale it. And then when you'd exhale—poof, you'd be high. I saw Buddha, man. I know that sounds like no big deal. But I saw a gigantic holographic Buddha — correct in every way! Buddhas can be very intricate — these drawings that you see in books. Thousands of details were included in this Buddha. Where did they come from? I didn't make them up. I can't even draw, you know? I could barely spell cat, you know? And there it was. And I thought, Wow — the power of the mind, you know?

A good DJ is always looking at the crowd, seeing what they’re like, seeing whether it’s working; communicating with them. Smiling at them. And a bad DJ is always looking down at what they’re doing all the time and just doing their thing that they practiced in their bedroom

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

Every cat knows some things need to be buried.

I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.

We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur.

That's at the core of equity: understanding who your kids are and how to meet their needs. You are still focused on outcomes, but the path to get there may not be the same for each one.

Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.

To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about relationships. Great teachers are not just instructors and test administrators: They are mentors, coaches, motivators, and lifelong sources of inspiration to their students.

To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.

Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Great minds think for themselves.

May we never risk the life of our souls by being resentful or by bearing grudges.

...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the future social revolution, the working class must first take possession of the organised political power of the state and by its aid crush the resistance of the capitalist class and organise society anew.

I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.