Famous quotes containing the words english, medium and/or school:
“So is the English Parliament provincial. Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, when any more important question arises for them to settle, the Irish question, for instance,the English question why did I not say? Their natures are subdued to what they work in. Their good breeding respects only secondary objects.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Computer mediation seems to bathe action in a more conditional light: perhaps it happened; perhaps it didnt. Without the layered richness of direct sensory engagement, the symbolic medium seems thin, flat, and fragile.”
—Shoshana Zuboff (b. 1951)
“There is nothing intrinsically better about a child who happily bounces off to school the first day and a child who is wary, watchful, and takes a longer time to separate from his parents and join the group. Neither one nor the other is smarter, better adjusted, or destined for a better life.”
—Ellen Galinsky (20th century)