Donovan Quotes
The educational process must again provide the opportunity for students to make choices and live with the consequences of these choices. Teaching is not simply telling people what to believe and do.
the process through which any concept or subject (content) is taught becomes a part of the content. (p19)
School curriculum, learning activities--all educational pursuits--should be characterized by and should lead to a sense and experience of wholeness. (p25)
I think I like wildflowers best, " I explain. "They just grow wherever they want. No one has to plant them. And then their seeds blow in the wind and they find a new place to grow." (Richelle)
You endure what is supposedly unbearable, and before you know it, you would have done the impossible by bearing the unbearable.
Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams
His strength kept me moving forward, and it was also tearing me apart.
Our students sometimes use their creativity to do wrong things, and we therefore conclude that we must keep them from being creative. But evil cannot be blamed on creativity. (p31)
Nothing exists but my breath. I know this feeling. Usually it comes when something unexpected and momentously awful is about to happen, which doesn’t make sense now. I’m just going home.
No matter how exotic or seemingly different another man is, there's always some reflection of self in another male.
If anything has made men more effeminate in the past half-century, it's been the running feminist critique of masculinity.
The natural gods of men are other men, mythic or real, who embody manhood in men's eyes.
I had to sever my emotional cord to escape the anger and shame that silently slithered through my head, disconnecting myself from the stares and whispers that followed me down the hall.
I can push everything into the dark.But it leaves me empty.And the dark always ends up finding me in my sleep
Sometimes the greatest difference between being a boy and being a man is restraint.
It is how humans are wired to remember. They either take more credit for success or more responsibility for failure than is their due.
He was a breath of fresh air after the heart wrenching storm that had engulfed me.
A man need not be ashamed of moist eyes when he gazes on the face of some loved one who is far away. It's human. It shows a kindly heart, an impressionable mind!("The Doomed Man")
I never gave him a chance to decide if I was worth loving. I'd taken that choice away from him - because I feared what it would be.
It was more important for me to try, than to not have the chance at all.
He leaned toward me and delicately grazed my lips with his. The tease left me breathless, burning for more. “I keep having to remind myself that I can do that, ” he smirked.
These past two days, I’ve seen a fire in your eyes that I never have before. Granted, it’s mostly anger and frustration, but it’s still emotion.
Knowledge is not necessary for obedience, nor doth information replace faith. El hast commanded. We shall obey
I knew in that moment, I would never love anyone in my life the way I loved Evan Mathews.
Knowing you were right down the hall was way too hard. I couldn’t do it, ” Evan declared, sliding under the covers next to me.
You are not showing her my baby pictures!” He sounded horrified, which made me laugh. “Come on, Evan, ” I teased with a laughing smile, “you were adorable.
Objectivity begins with the realization that one is subjective.
She'd even violated the only sensible rule of dieting she'd ever run across, the sage advice of the Muppets' Miss Piggy, who recommended never eating anything bigger than your head.
Oh! Did you hear that Haley Spencer asked him to homecoming?” she exclaimed. “Of course I didn’t. You’re my source of gossip, remember?
