When I teach people, I marry them.

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.