Sylvia Ashton-Warner Quote
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry for instance still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially it takes over your spirit.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry for instance still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially it takes over your spirit.
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About Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Sylvia Constance Ashton-Warner (17 December 1908 – 28 April 1984) was a New Zealand novelist, non-fiction writer, poet, pianist and world figure in the teaching of children. As an educator she developed and applied concepts of organic, child-based learning to the teaching of reading and writing, and vocabulary techniques, still used today.