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Sylvia Ashton-Warner

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The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.


— Sylvia Ashton-Warner


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As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly.


— Sylvia Ashton-Warner


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I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions.


— Sylvia Ashton-Warner


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I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.


— Sylvia Ashton-Warner


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I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned.


— Sylvia Ashton-Warner


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Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work.


— Sylvia Ashton-Warner


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When I teach people, I marry them.


— Sylvia Ashton-Warner


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About Sylvia Ashton-Warner






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Her life story was adapted for the 1985 biographical film Sylvia based on her work and writings and Sylvia Ashton-Warner was honoured at the University of Auckland—the institution at which Sylvia Ashton-Warner trained between 1928 and 1929—where the Faculty of Education library was named the Sylvia Ashton-Warner Library in 1987. Ashton-Warner died on 28 April 1984 in Tauranga. Sylvia Constance Ashton-Warner (17 December 1908 – 28 April 1984) New Zealand writer poet and educator was born on 17 December 1908 in Stratford New Zealand.

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