Devyani Dutt

“the real role of effective leaders in education is not command and control; it is climate control.”
― Ken Robinson, Creative Schools: Revolutionizing Education from the Ground Up

“Children use fantasy not to get out of, but to get into, the real world.”
― John C. Holt, How Children Learn (50th anniversary edition)

“THE DAILY DAD December 15 Every Moment Is the Same Always hold fast to the present. Every situation, indeed every moment, is of infinite value, for it is the representative of a whole eternity. —GOETHE With bills to pay or traffic to wait through, a colicky baby or a resentful teenager, it can be hard to feel that the moment right in front of you is a gift. But indeed, these are wonderful moments. We must, as Goethe put it, hold fast to them. That’s what parenting is. It’s right now. It’s whatever you’re doing in this moment. Always. Driving them to school. Folding laundry. Getting some quiet time before they wake up. Putting them back to bed when they wake up in the middle of the night. Sending them to their room. Taking away their phone because their grades have slipped. This is all it. This is all part of the job. And every one of these moments is wonderful. Every one of these moments is a gift. All of it is right now. It’s being presented to you at this very moment.”
― Ryan Holiday, The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love and Raising Great Kids

“look at children, patiently, repeatedly, respectfully, and to hold off making theories and judgments about them until they have in their minds what most of them do not now have—a reasonably accurate model of what children are like.”
― John C. Holt, How Children Learn (50th anniversary edition)