Autumn is definitely here. The trees in upstate New York are beginning to turn with the season. It’s always glorious. With Elizabeth in school, Paul and I have been able to get more done more often. We finished the fireflies … Continue reading
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” ~Benjamin Franklin
“I was interested once to hear a mathematician who homeschooled his family say that he didn’t believe in teaching them math – that the way mathematics is taught is too narrow, and he wanted his children to see more possibilities.” … Continue reading
“And when things start to happen, don’t worry. Don’t stew. Just go right along. You’ll start happening too.” ~Dr. Seuss, from Oh, The Places You’ll Go!
“My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.” ~Robert Maynard Hutchins
“You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.”
~Clay P. Bedford
Elizabeth, standing at the window and looking out, suddenly says, “I wish for a day as beautiful as this.”
I say, “Oh yeah?” to lead her on and see if she’ll elaborate.
“Yes,” she says, “because today is so beautiful: the sky is a rainbow, the sun is bright, and it is so beautiful outside. My wish is for a day as beautiful as today everyday.”
“Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.”
~Vilifredo Pareto
The other day, when I came back upstairs from putting Paul down for a nap, Elizabeth says to me,
“A brown man in brown clothes with a black truck left a brown box at the door.”
UPS had made a delivery. 🙂
“Any object in your household is a toy to a baby. So you can be doing laundry and sorting socks, and your child can just be putting the laundry in and out of the hamper. And you know what? To a child, that’s a perfectly fun way to learn up and down, and high and low, and in and out, and eventually reds and whites, and counting.”
~Maureen O’Brien, Ph.D, child development specialist and author of Watch Me Grow: I’m One-Two-Three
as quoted in Unplugged Play, by Bobbi Conner
