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Sylvia Ashton-Warner Quotes


A New Zealand writer, poet and educator, was born on December 17, 1908, in Stratford, New Zealand. 
Sylvia Constance Ashton-Warner, (December 17, 1908 - April 28, 1984) was a New Zealand writer, poet and educator, was born on December 17, 1908, in Stratford, New Zealand. She spent many years teaching Māori children, using stimulating and often pioneering techniques which she wrote about in her 1963 treatise Teacher and in the various volumes of her autobiography. Her success derived from a commitment to "releasing the native imagery and using it for working material" and her belief that communication must produce a mutual response in order to affect a lasting change. As a novelist, she produced several works mostly centred around strong female characters.

Here are some famous quotes by  Sylvia Ashton-Warner.

There is only one answer to destruc-tiveness and that is creativity.

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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth; and truth rewarded me.

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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.