Capanna Technique Quotes & Sayings

It is fun to try figure out the things that really are real and the things that aren't. — Penelope Spheeris

Your power as a woman, as a mother, is your medicine, and it saved you. Take your courage in that. — Jim Fergus

He is a blind man and I am his book of braille. His breath against my collarbone raises goosebumps on my arm as I let him read my story. — Alanna Rusnak

In one of the army's most outrageous Jim Crow episodes, an order came down at a Pennsylvania camp warning that "any association between the colored soldiers and white women, whether voluntary or not, would be considered rape. And the penalty would be death." After howls of protest from William H. Hastie, the civilian aide to the war secretary, and the NAACP, the War Department revoked the order. — Linda Hervieux

We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible about time, texts, and tests, by introducing kids into truly competent adults, and by giving each student what autonomy he or she needs in order to take a risk every now and then. But we don't do that. — John Taylor Gatto

Progress is something with no pity, and no purpose. It just happens. It chews up all you ever knew, and spits out things you can't understand, and the only value it seems to have is to make a few people a lot of money. — Spider Robinson

What is truly profound is thought to be stupid and trivial, or worse, boring, while what is actually stupid and trivial is thought to be profound. That is what it means to fly upside down. — Dallas Willard

New York's not exactly antiseptic. It could be clean and less dangerous, and not horrible, not under a tidal wave of tourists. — Fran Lebowitz