Creative Quotations from Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1908-1984)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Sylvia Ashton-Warner
(1908-1984) born on Dec 17

New Zealander educator, writer, novelist, poet. She was known for her innovative work in adapting traditional British teaching methods to the special needs of Maori children.

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I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.

I see the mind of a 5-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.

When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another step.

I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned.

The truth is that I am enslaved . . . in one vast love affair with 70 children.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	Aug 1941, "Myself," 1967.
R:	"Teacher," 1963.
A:	"Teacher," 1963.
N:	Feb 1941, "Myself," 1967.
K:	On life of a teacher, "Spinster," Simon & Schuster 59