Literary inspiration

“We wish to inculcate in our students the habit of reading”

I thought that any educator who used the world inculcate in a sentence deserved to have better teaching materials.

- Headmaster of a Nepalese school cited in Wood (2006)

Our bodies are only tents that house our spirits; colour merely a pigment of our imagination

- Spirit of a Nation: Panographs by Ken Duncan

The dictum, ‘Knowledge is power’ is only true if that knowledge is shared and put to use, knowledge that is hoarded is useless

- B.J. Perry, 1999

A Librarian is the student’s equivalent of a Sherpa – an invaluable guide

- Emerson, 2007

Problems do not go away.  They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit

- M. Scott Peck “The Road Less Travelled”

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just realize them.

- Man Ray, O Magazine, September 2002

If you’re not regularly pushing your limits to failure, then how can you ever know how far you might go?

- Ann Snoeyenbos, in Balance in “The Librarians career guidebook” (2004, ed Shontz, P).

Hope, she discovered, could find sustenance from many different sources

- “The Spooks Stories: witches” by Joseph Delaney