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

- 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, st…

- Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter.

- Sylvia Ashton-Warner

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

- Sylvia Ashton-Warner

We already have so much pressure towards sameness through radio, film and comic outside the school, that we can't afford to do a thing inside that is…

- Sylvia Ashton-Warner

There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity.

- Sylvia Ashton-Warner

It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say, what's the good of it if not hea…

- Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.

- Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist …

- Sylvia Ashton-Warner