learning

Children, even when very young, have the capacity for inventive thought and decisive action. They have worthwhile ideas. They make perceptive connections. They__e individuals from the start: a unique bundle of interests, talents, and preferences. They have something to contribute. They want to be a part of things.It__ up to us to give them the opportunity to express their creativity, explore widely, and connect with their own meaningful work.

Where we see the same faults followed regularly by the same misfortunes, we may reasonably think that if we could have known the first we might have avoided the others.

I will learn by screwing up.

I should learn to run, to wrestle, to swim, to ride horses, to row, to drive a car, to fire a rifle. I should fill my soul with flesh. I should fill my flesh with soul. In fact, I should reconcile at last within me the two internal antagonists.

The philosophy of project-based homeschooling _ this particular approach to helping children become strong thinkers, learners, and doers _ is dependent upon the interest and the enthusiastic participation and leadership of the learners themselves, the children.

Dwelling much on the contemplation of little things, [we] are in danger of losing the intellectual appetite.

Life is a test. _It was designed to be so. _It is where we taste the bitter and the sweet; where we feel pain and pleasure; where we learn right from wrong; where we pass through both darkness and light. _It is a time to make choices. _And through this process we form our characters__ome grand and glorious, some barely decent, and others just plain monstrous._

In what areas are you learning and growing? If the answer is none that means you're stagnating or regressing. Learn more, earn more, know more, grow more!

When all the teachers are gone, who will be your teacher?The student replied: __verything!Kobun, paused, then said: __o, you".

Today at school I will learn to read at once; then tomorrow I will begin to write, and the day after tomorrow to cipher. Then with my acquirements I will earn a great deal of money, and with the first money I have in my pocket I will immediately buy for my papa a beautiful new cloth coat. But what am I saying? Cloth, indeed! It shall be all made of gold and silver, and it shall have diamond buttons. That poor man really deserves it; for to buy me books and to have me taught he has remained in his shirt sleeves... And in this cold! It is only fathers who are capable of such sacrifices!...

We teach what we need to learn. And we teach it until we get it.

Dear God," said Nudge under her breath, "I want real parents. But I want them to want me too. I wantthem to love me. I already love them. Please see what you can do. Thanks very much. Love, Nudge."Okay, so I'm not saying we were pros at this or anything. (Max thoughts)

There are some things you can__ learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life... the only college where everyone is a permanent student.

I miss being a student," said Abdul Wahid. "I miss the passionate discussions with my friends, and most of all the hours among the books.

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.