#ear

I’m not concerned about your comfort zone or readiness for change. I’m concerned about the kids who just entered Kindergarten. ↗

— Ian Jukes

#jukes #kindergarten #learning #change

Cuando los zapatos aprietan, buena señal. Algo cambia ahí, algo que nos muestra, que sordamente nos pone, nos plantea. Por eso los monstruos son tan populares y los diarios se extasían con los terneros bicéfalos. ¡Qué oportunidades, qué esbozo de un gran salto hacia lo otro! ↗

— Julio Cortázar

#learning #change

For [Stephen] Harper, a national daycare plan bordered on being a socialist scheme, a phrase he had once used to describe the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. For [Paul] Martin, whose plan would have transferred to the provinces $5 billion over five years, the national program was what Canadianism was all about. "Think about it this way," [Martin] said. "What if, decades ago, Tommy Douglas and my father and Lester Pearson had considered the idea of medicare and then said, 'Forget it! Let's just give people twenty-five dollars a week.' You want a fundamental difference between Mr. Harper and myself? Well, this is it. ↗

— Lawrence Martin

#canadian #canadian-history #canadian-politics #health-care #healthcare

While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom. ↗

— Samuel Dash

#also #assist #corrupt #courtroom #courts

In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#change

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years. ↗

— Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#hundred #playwrights #should #three #years

I'm a schoolteacher. That's even worse than being an intellectual. Schoolteachers are not only comic, they're often cold and hungry in this richest land on earth. ↗

— Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#cold #comic #earth #even #even worse

 Sora, don't ever change. ↗

— Tetsuya Nomura

#kairi #kingdom-hearts #sora #change

This is how best to effect change. If you reiterate the same fears and the same sensible measures with proper augmentation enough times, even difficult decisions will begin to seem like the only justifiable solutions. ↗

— Olli Jalonen

#government #politics #change

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and see our illusions die. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#fear #change