Retuercen Quotes & Sayings

Teachers who complain 'These kids have no work ethic' couldn't be farther off the mark. The problem is not that these kids lack a work ethic; the problem is that some of them see no connection between a work ethic and school. None of them would think, for example, to say to a customer at the MacDonald's drive-up window, 'Do you think I could get you those Chicken McNuggets some time tomorrow?' Yet we give sanction to that sort of request when it comes to school assignments. — Garret Keizer

It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay. — Aristophanes

protect us from small-minded men with too much power. — Brandon Sanderson

New organs of perception come into being as a result of necessity. Therefore, O man, increase your necessity, so that you may increase your perception. — Rumi

A college provides a means of accrediting and laundering one's existence, so that what was may be forgotten under the weight of something far more mundane. — Thomm Quackenbush