Principal Fractional Ideals

Famous quotes containing the words principal, fractional and/or ideals:

    I would urge that the yeast of education is the idea of excellence, and the idea of excellence comprises as many forms as there are individuals, each of whom develops his own image of excellence. The school must have as one of its principal functions the nurturing of images of excellence.
    Jerome S. Bruner (20th century)

    Hummingbird
    stay for a fractional sharp
    sweetness, and’s gone, can’t take
    more than that.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.
    Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)