"If beauty isn’t genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning." ― Peter York Topic(s): Beauty More In Beauty "If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?"― Maria Montessori "I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?"― Jean Kerr "I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China."― Jung Chang