Sylvia Ashton-Warner — New Zealander Educator born on December 17, 1908, died on April 28, 1984

Sylvia Constance Ashton-Warner MBE was a New Zealand writer, poet and educator... (wikipedia)

As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly.
The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.
I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.
I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions.
I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned.