It is the teacher - what the teacher knows and can do - that is the most significant factor in student achievement.
Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.
Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.
Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.
One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is. . . the Dynamical Theory of Gases
What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.
Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.
There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things
Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred? These ways of thinking - cultivated, nurtured, indoctrinated from childhood on - have been useful to those in power, and deadly for those out of power.
I'm a tulip in a cup. I stand no chance of growing up
Gender fluidity is not really feeling like you're at one end of the spectrum or the other.