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So...

Looking for a quote to transcribe, and too lazy to go three rooms away where
Holt resides in the library, I pulled down two still-in-the-office faves, The
Zen Commandments, and Whole Child/Whole Parent.

These aren't the quotes I'm going to write, but here are a couple of good
ones. For starters, from Dean Sluyter who wrote The Zen Commandments and Why
the Chicken Crossed the Road, just a couple of phrases. One's the name of a
chapter: No appointment, no disappointment. Another: No pretension, no
tension.

Sluyter quotes Kafka:

"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and
listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still
and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it
has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."

There's lots more, but Holly wants me to come and watch partof a video.
Gotta go.

Sandra

Nancy Wooton

on 12/28/01 8:42 PM, SandraDodd@... at SandraDodd@... wrote:

> Looking for a quote to transcribe, and too lazy to go three rooms away where
> Holt resides in the library

Couldn't just do a web search, eh?

I found a John Holt quote on an Alfie Kohn website :-) I'd happened across
Alfie on the local educational cable channel; it was a tape of a seminar he
was doing on a show called "Professional Development." Do you know Google
will pull up over 3 million hit for that phrase?

Anyway, here's the quote from www.alfiekohn.org, in an article about
academic standards:

Back in 1959, John Holt wrote that the main effect "of the drive for
so-called higher standards in schools is that the children are too busy to
think."

Nancy

My personal fave homeschooling quote is from a friend of mine:
--
If school works, we should all know enough algebra to be able to help our
children. If it doesn't--why should I send my child?

Joylyn

Nancy Wooton wrote:

>

Thanks! I love both these quotes.

Joylyn

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>
> Back in 1959, John Holt wrote that the main effect "of the drive for
> so-called higher standards in schools is that the children are too
> busy to
> think."
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> Nancy
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> My personal fave homeschooling quote is from a friend of mine:
> --
> If school works, we should all know enough algebra to be able to help
> our
> children. If it doesn't--why should I send my child?
>
>
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