Learning Experientially (Quote)

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” ~Benjamin Franklin

Endless Possibilities (Quote)

“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.” …

Go With the Flow (Quote)

“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!

Setting the Flame (Quote)

“My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.” ~Robert Maynard Hutchins

A Day or a Life (Quote)

“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

A Day As Beautiful As This (Quote by Elizabeth)

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.”

It Grows From an Error (Quote)

“Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.”

~Vilifredo Pareto

Brown and Black (Quote by Elizabeth)

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. 🙂

Sock It To Me (Quote)

“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

Knowledge is Light (Quote)

“There is no darkness but ignorance.”

~William Shakespeare