"Sylvia Constance Ashton-Warner" was a New Zealand writer, poet and educator.

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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. It drags it out from where it would hide.

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Truth has beauty, power and necessity.

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