The Mighty Marvel Super-Heroes

"Nihilistic defiance became the order of the day and my personal contributions to the ongoing war of attrition between pupils and teachers developed a new, guillotine edge," (Grant Morrison, Supergods).

"You should know better, my boy, than to quarrel with strangers," (Llyod Alexander, The Black Cauldron).

"Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love," (Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron).

“No friends, 'cause you dissed 'em too / No money, no crew, you're through,” (Fred Wesley, James Brown, Afrika Islam, Charles Bobbit and Ice-T, You Played Yourself).

“The teacher must orient his work not on yesterday’s development (…) but on tomorrow’s,” (LevVygotsky).

“He wanted to show that fate ruled people's lives, and that those who interfered with it did so to their sorrow,” (W.W. Jacobs, “The Monkey’s Paw”).

“The storm is passing through, lay down your sticks and stones / The struggle's over now, we're all just flesh and bones / We were wrong before, it was wrong to trust / The shadows cast were only light and dust,” (Ernest Anastasio and Thomas Marshall, Blaze On).

“He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave himself up to complete miserableness, for a long while. He thought of himself frying bacon and eggs in his own kitchen at home - for he could feel inside that it was high time for some meal or other; but that only made him miserabler,” (J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit).

“If (internalizing) is not reached the student will be engaged only in short-term learning and what appears to be understanding will melt away when the need for it disappears,” (Morgan and Saxton, Asking Better Questions). 

“I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn,” (Albert Einstein). 

"It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name," (Eugene Peterson, The Message).

”It risks falling into the 'Great Man' school of history, where history is all about titanic figures punching each other and shoving each other into buildings and stepping on little people,” (Elliot Kalan).

"(The figure) represents (...) the spectator, participant, player, or cog in the wheel-- the amorphous 'us'... being manipulated," (Derek Boshier).

“Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense, everything is on the edge of collapse,” (Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park).