Common Scaling Factor

Famous quotes containing the words common and/or factor:

    “We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.”
    —Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

    “Children of the middle years do not do their learning unaffected by attendant feelings of interest, boredom, success, failure, chagrin, joy, humiliation, pleasure, distress and delight. They are whole children responding in a total way, and what they feel is a constant factor that can be constructive or destructive in any learning situation.”
    —Dorothy H. Cohen (20th century)