Famous quotes containing the words level, working and/or poverty:
“Preschoolers sound much brighter and more knowledgeable than they really are, which is why so many parents and grandparents are so sure their progeny are gifted and super-bright. Because childrens questions sound so mature and sophisticated, we are tempted to answer them at a level of abstraction far beyond the childs level of comprehension. That is a temptation we should resist.”
—David Elkind (20th century)
“English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if in some heart the speaker strikes a dissonance there is a swift answer. Always the voice speaks from gallery or pit, the terrible voice which detaches itself in every English crowd, full of caustic wit, full of irony or, maybe, approval.”
—Mary Heaton Vorse (18741966)
“The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated
classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.”
—William James (18421910)