Gary m and Mary Anne Taylor

Ren-you have a new quote below your name. I like it!
Mary T.


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joylyn

I am looking for a few good quotes.

This is for my classroom, where I'd like to print off a bunch of quotes
and put them all of the room. All subjects.

So, can we start a thread on favorite quotes?

Joylyn

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"Wherever you go, there you are."


I think it's un- or variously-attributed.

Sandra


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joylyn

That is so simple, until you actually think about it. Then it's very
profound.

Joylyn

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joylyn@... writes:
-=-That is so simple, until you actually think about it. Then it's very
profound.

Joylyn

SandraDodd@... wrote:

> "Wherever you go, there you are."=\=



Yes. And then there's the same general thing, as stated by Beavis (speaking
as "Cornholio," written by Mike Judge): "You cannot run from your own bung
hole."

Sandra


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On Jan 9, 2004, at 9:05 PM, SandraDodd@... wrote:

> "Wherever you go, there you are."
>
>
> I think it's un- or variously-attributed.
>


Buckaroo Bonzai.

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***I am looking for a few good quotes.***

From the depths of my drafts folder...

Deb L

-------
Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt,
but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.
~ John W. Gardner~
-------
"If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are
divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and
ignore the connections is to destroy the tree."
~Wendell Berry~
-------
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original
dimensions.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.~
-------
Seeing is different than being told.
~ Proverb from Kenya~
--------
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of
knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
~Lillian Smith~
-------
Education is a social process ... Education is growth.... Education is,
not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
~John Dewey ~
-------
It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the
living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial
means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a
natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his
scholastic difficulties.
~Alice Duer Miller~
-------
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly
making exciting discoveries."
~ A.A. Milne~
------

Kelly

My favorite is humorous and I use it for my signature line!!

Kelly

"One day you'll wake up and realize you wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library." - Good Will Hunting


----- Original Message -----
From: Deborah Lewis
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 8:17 AM
Subject: [UnschoolingDiscussion] Re: quotes


***I am looking for a few good quotes.***

From the depths of my drafts folder...

Deb L

-------
Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt,
but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.
~ John W. Gardner~
-------
"If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are
divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and
ignore the connections is to destroy the tree."
~Wendell Berry~
-------
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original
dimensions.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.~
-------
Seeing is different than being told.
~ Proverb from Kenya~
--------
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of
knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
~Lillian Smith~
-------
Education is a social process ... Education is growth.... Education is,
not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
~John Dewey ~
-------
It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the
living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial
means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a
natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his
scholastic difficulties.
~Alice Duer Miller~
-------
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly
making exciting discoveries."
~ A.A. Milne~
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Danielle Conger

"When the doors of perception are cleansed everything will appear as it is, infinite." William Blake

"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then. I contradict myself, for I am large and I contain multitudes." Walt Whitman

Those are from memory, so while I'm pretty positive that the words are correct, I wouldn't swear by the punctuation. <g>

--danielle

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Susan Gallien

I like this one by Robert J. Oppenheimer [inventor of the atomic bomb]:

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

By the way, what's a classroom?

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From: joylyn
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 10:13 PM
Subject: [UnschoolingDiscussion] quotes


I am looking for a few good quotes.

This is for my classroom, where I'd like to print off a bunch of quotes
and put them all of the room. All subjects.

So, can we start a thread on favorite quotes?

Joylyn





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Holly Furgason

Joylyn,

Do you mean school type subjects? I have a bunch of those because I
was the director of a inner-city learning center. Here are the ones
on writing but I have more on math and science if you'd like:

"Start writing, no matter about what. The water does not flow until
the faucet is turned on. You can sit and look at a page for a long
time and nothing will happen. Start writing and it will."
Louis L'Amour 1908-1988

"After all, birds do naturally what poets dream of: they sing, they
mediate between land and sky, between the earthbound body and the
airborne soul."
Jonathan Rosen

When I face the desolate impossibility of writing 500 pages, a sick
sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then
gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's works is all
I can permit myself to contemplate.
--John Steinbeck

Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should
contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences,
for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines
and a machine no unnecessary parts.
--William Strunk, Jr.

"Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the
fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon."
E.L. Doctorow

"Dreaming and hoping won't produce a piece of work; only writing,
rewriting and rewriting (if necessary)--a devoted translation of
thoughts and dreams into words on paper--will result in a story."
Roberta Gellis

"There is no perfect time to write. There's only now."
Barbara Kingsolver

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier--not that the nature
of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased."
Emerson

"A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The
wastebasket has evolved for a reason."
Margaret Atwood

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
Robert Francis Kennedy

"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to
deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year."
John Foster Dulles

"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated
simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."
Charles Mingus

"Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim
writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with a first draft to the
point where one cannot change it is to greatly enhance the prospects
of never publishing."
Richard North Patterson

"Books aren't written--they're rewritten. Including your own. It is
one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh
rewrite hasn't quite done it."
Michael Crichton

"There is no great writing, only great rewriting."
Justice Brandeis

"There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the
very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result
of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only
you don't see them."
Elie Wiesel

"The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right
the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it
better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile."
Robert Cormier

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to
please everyone."
Bill Cosby

"To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
Elbert Hubbard

"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is
for other people."
Thomas Mann

"What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is
working when he's staring out the window."
Rudolph Erich Rascoe

"Be anything you want to be, but don't be dull." ~Frank Robinson

"You can take for granted that people know more or less what a
street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what
makes this one different." ~Neil Gaiman

"Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're
doomed." ~Ray Bradbury

"A book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even
then." ~C.S. Lewis

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In a message dated 1/10/2004 8:20:47 AM Eastern Standard Time,
ddzimlew@... writes:


> "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly
> making exciting discoveries."
> ~ A.A. Milne~

I HAVE to hang this quote in my house! <<G>>
I already have this one: " A creative mess is better than tidy idleness !

Here's more that I like:


The simplest of joys and the greatest of fulfillment is learning to rest and
drink deeply and joyfully of the lives in our own home and the love that is
shared there. -unknown

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~Confucius



Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste
the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
~Henry David Thoreau





Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day
listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is
hardly a waste of time. - Sir John Lubboc

"May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is
wrapped in thoughtfulness, and tied with love."
- L. O. Baird

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight,
feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.
~Victor Hugo


Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair,
but manifestations of strength and resolutions. - Kahlil Gibran


If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to
pick one of those pieces up and begin again. ~Flavia Weedn


I have spread my dreams beneath your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams...
William Butler Yeats

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life
is made of."

-Benjamin Franklin

" Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from
themselves."
-Barrie

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that
every child should be given the wish to learn.
~John Lubbock

~Forgiveness doesn't make the other person right, it makes you free.

~Stormie Omartian

"To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition"
- Samuel Johnson

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have
into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos
to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast,
a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes
sense of our past, brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family."
~Anthony Brandt

( well, not unschoolers or homeschoolers <<G>>)
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and
recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind,
a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your example is much more powerful than anything you can ever say.
~ Elisabeth Elliot

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature-
the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter. ~Rachel
Carson

I am a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here.
I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea.
I just love the children.
Marva Collins




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Kelly Lenhart

>> "Wherever you go, there you are."
>> I think it's un- or variously-attributed.

>Buckaroo Bonzai.
>-pam


YUP! Wonderful movie, must own that someday.

I sometime think it's the "turn on, drop out" of my generation.

Kelly

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In a message dated 1/10/2004 8:48:05 AM Eastern Standard Time,
apmomto4@... writes:

>
> "One day you'll wake up and realize you wasted $150,000 on an education you
> coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library." - Good Will Hunting
>
>
>

I have a wall in my kitchen where I post quotes that catch my
eye.....After just paying $8.00 in late fees from the holidays, this one has a new
place of honor!

Gail


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Wife2Vegman

"Put the little minds of children out of your
thoughts. Children have just as big minds as we
have." -- Charlotte Mason


�Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend;
inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.� -- Groucho
Marx

�No book is really worth reading at the age of ten
which is not equally (and often far more) worth
reading at the age of fifty and beyond.� C. S. Lewis

"Birds fly, fish swim, man thinks and learns.
Therefore, we do not need to motivate children into
learning by wheedling, bribing or bullying. We do not
need to keep picking away at their minds to make sure
they are learning.

What we need to do, and all we need to do, is bring as
much of the world as we can into their lives. Give
children as much help and guidance as they ask for;
listen respectfully when they feel like talking; and
then get out of the way. We can trust them to do the
rest."
- John Holt


"What is most important and valuable about the home as
a base for children's growth into the world is not
that it is a better school than the schools, but that
it isn't a school at all." -- John Holt


"It is the duty of a citizen in a free country not to
fit into society, but to make society." -John Holt




=====
--Susan in VA
WifetoVegman

What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children's growth into the world is not that it is a better school than the schools, but that it isn't a school at all. John Holt

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"Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your
life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can.
Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to
the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised
by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck
always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of
their own luck."

"Education is no substitute for intelligence."

"Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make
them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a
subject that you become ignorant."

"There's no secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves."

All above quotes from Frank Herbert's _Chapterhouse: Dune_

-Tracy-

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Mary

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
Bertrand Russell.


"Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they
are after."
Henry David Thoreau


"People only see what they are prepared to see."
Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart
enough to know they were impossible."
Doug Larson


"I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have
things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their
own ideas."
Agatha Christie


"A child educated only at school is an educated child."
George Santayana


"I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which
they can learn."
Albert Einstein









Mary B.
http://www.homeschoolingtshirts.com

liza sabater

On Saturday, January 10, 2004, at 11:15 AM, TreeGoddess wrote:

> "Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your
> life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can.
> Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to
> the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised
> by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck
> always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of
> their own luck."
>
> "Education is no substitute for intelligence."

Has this one come up?

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.
-Mark Twain's Notebook , 1898


l i z a
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[email protected]

Here's my favorites:

"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are
doing the impossible." - St. Francis of Assisi

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life
in your years." - Abraham Lincoln

Nancy B. in WV


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In a message dated 1/10/04 7:24:30 AM, unschooler@... writes:

<< "A book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even

then." ~C.S. Lewis

>>

I love that!

When I was the age Marty is now, nearly 15, I remember checking out from the
school libary two books in one day: The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe,
and On Beyond Zebra, by Dr. Seuss.

Several of my friends pointed and commented, and I said "Well I'm going to be
a teacher when I grow up, so I need to read children's books."

It passed as an excuse, and it was true, too! But really, I just liked that
book and hadn't seen it for a while and wanted to read it again.

I wish I had been braver. But I was brave enough to check it out and carry
it around, and most kids wouldn't have been, or maybe wouldn't have checked it
out because they didn't have to, nobody was making them.

I'm glad for all the ways in which my kids' lives are avoiding those weird
"rules" of school/age/grade.

Sandra

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In a message dated 1/10/2004 8:48:04 AM Eastern Standard Time,
apmomto4@... writes:

>>"One day you'll wake up and realize you wasted $150,000 on an education you
coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library." - Good Will
Hunting<<
******************************************************
I'm putting this up in my house too..brilliant! I'd forgotten it, we love
the movie. Our other favorite quote from that movie that my husband uses ALL
the time

"Do you like apples?"
"Yes."
"Well I got her phone number...how do you like them apples?"

but something like:

"Do you like apples?"
Grudgingly, with a slight moan, "Yes."
"Well I just broke your record at Checkers. How do you like them apples?"

Nancy B. in WV


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Ingrid Bauer/Jean-Claude Catry

> > "One day you'll wake up and realize you wasted $150,000 on an education
you
> > coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library." - Good Will
Hunting

The thing is, I'm afraid that by the time we're done (never? :-)) we'll have
spent at *least* $150,000 in late fees at the library. Now when were those
books due again??

ingrid

joylyn

That is a great quote. However, I can't put it up on my wall in my
public class room.

Sometimes I think that maybe I'm creating the parents of future
homeschoolers. But at this point in these kids lives, there families
could not homeschool. '

Joylyn

Kelly wrote:

> My favorite is humorous and I use it for my signature line!!
>
> Kelly
>
> "One day you'll wake up and realize you wasted $150,000 on an
> education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public
> library." - Good Will Hunting
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Deborah Lewis
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 8:17 AM
> Subject: [UnschoolingDiscussion] Re: quotes
>
>
> ***I am looking for a few good quotes.***
>
> From the depths of my drafts folder...
>
> Deb L
>
> -------
> Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a
> thunderbolt,
> but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.
> ~ John W. Gardner~
> -------
> "If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are
> divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and
> ignore the connections is to destroy the tree."
> ~Wendell Berry~
> -------
> Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original
> dimensions.
> ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.~
> -------
> Seeing is different than being told.
> ~ Proverb from Kenya~
> --------
> Education is a private matter between the person and the world of
> knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
> ~Lillian Smith~
> -------
> Education is a social process ... Education is growth.... Education is,
> not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
> ~John Dewey ~
> -------
> It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut
> off the
> living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial
> means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a
> natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his
> scholastic difficulties.
> ~Alice Duer Miller~
> -------
> "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly
> making exciting discoveries."
> ~ A.A. Milne~
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Holly Furgason wrote:

> Joylyn,
>
> Do you mean school type subjects?

Not necessarily. Any good quote.

But the ones you sent are great. I already had a few...

Thanks

Joylyn

> I have a bunch of those because I
> was the director of a inner-city learning center. Here are the ones
> on writing but I have more on math and science if you'd like:
>
> "Start writing, no matter about what. The water does not flow until
> the faucet is turned on. You can sit and look at a page for a long
> time and nothing will happen. Start writing and it will."
> Louis L'Amour 1908-1988
>
> "After all, birds do naturally what poets dream of: they sing, they
> mediate between land and sky, between the earthbound body and the
> airborne soul."
> Jonathan Rosen
>
> When I face the desolate impossibility of writing 500 pages, a sick
> sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then
> gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's works is all
> I can permit myself to contemplate.
> --John Steinbeck
>
> Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should
> contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences,
> for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines
> and a machine no unnecessary parts.
> --William Strunk, Jr.
>
> "Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader--not the
> fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon."
> E.L. Doctorow
>
> "Dreaming and hoping won't produce a piece of work; only writing,
> rewriting and rewriting (if necessary)--a devoted translation of
> thoughts and dreams into words on paper--will result in a story."
> Roberta Gellis
>
> "There is no perfect time to write. There's only now."
> Barbara Kingsolver
>
> "That which we persist in doing becomes easier--not that the nature
> of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased."
> Emerson
>
> "A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The
> wastebasket has evolved for a reason."
> Margaret Atwood
>
> "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
> Robert Francis Kennedy
>
> "The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to
> deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year."
> John Foster Dulles
>
> "Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated
> simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."
> Charles Mingus
>
> "Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim
> writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with a first draft to the
> point where one cannot change it is to greatly enhance the prospects
> of never publishing."
> Richard North Patterson
>
> "Books aren't written--they're rewritten. Including your own. It is
> one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh
> rewrite hasn't quite done it."
> Michael Crichton
>
> "There is no great writing, only great rewriting."
> Justice Brandeis
>
> "There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the
> very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result
> of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only
> you don't see them."
> Elie Wiesel
>
> "The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right
> the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it
> better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile."
> Robert Cormier
>
> "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to
> please everyone."
> Bill Cosby
>
> "To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
> Elbert Hubbard
>
> "A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is
> for other people."
> Thomas Mann
>
> "What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is
> working when he's staring out the window."
> Rudolph Erich Rascoe
>
> "Be anything you want to be, but don't be dull." ~Frank Robinson
>
> "You can take for granted that people know more or less what a
> street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what
> makes this one different." ~Neil Gaiman
>
> "Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're
> doomed." ~Ray Bradbury
>
> "A book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even
> then." ~C.S. Lewis
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joylyn

These are great ones! Thanks.

Joylyn

Deborah Lewis wrote:

> ***I am looking for a few good quotes.***
>
> >From the depths of my drafts folder...
>
> Deb L
>
> -------
> Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt,
> but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.
> ~ John W. Gardner~
> -------
> "If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are
> divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and
> ignore the connections is to destroy the tree."
> ~Wendell Berry~
> -------
> Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original
> dimensions.
> ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.~
> -------
> Seeing is different than being told.
> ~ Proverb from Kenya~
> --------
> Education is a private matter between the person and the world of
> knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
> ~Lillian Smith~
> -------
> Education is a social process ... Education is growth.... Education is,
> not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
> ~John Dewey ~
> -------
> It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the
> living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial
> means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a
> natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his
> scholastic difficulties.
> ~Alice Duer Miller~
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> making exciting discoveries."
> ~ A.A. Milne~
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joylyn

I like the walt whitman one.

Danielle Conger wrote:

> "When the doors of perception are cleansed everything will appear as
> it is, infinite." William Blake
>
> "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then. I contradict myself, for I
> am large and I contain multitudes." Walt Whitman
>
> Those are from memory, so while I'm pretty positive that the words are
> correct, I wouldn't swear by the punctuation. <g>
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In a message dated 1/10/04 11:33:38 AM, instinct@... writes:

<< The thing is, I'm afraid that by the time we're done (never? :-)) we'll
have

spent at *least* $150,000 in late fees at the library. Now when were those

books due again??
>>

The libraries in Albuquerque don't charge late fees. They will suspend your
card if you ignore a couple of warnings, but you can renew by phone or online.
And it doesn't cost money to get your card reinstated, you just have to go
in person and say "Here I am, could you re-boot this card?" and they give you
the look they give to someone who's not bright enough to just renew on time,
and they fix it up.

But if you have three kids with library cards, you can use their cards when
yours is suspended.

How would I know these things!? <g>

Sandra

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and blosssom into who she will become. Education happens as side effect.
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Shannon Rizzo

Many libraries offer no-late-fee cards to homeschooling parents (or
teachers).
Shannon

-----Original Message-----
The thing is, I'm afraid that by the time we're done (never? :-)) we'll have
spent at *least* $150,000 in late fees at the library. Now when were those
books due again??

ingrid

Elizabeth Roberts

LOL My local librarian thinks my name is Sarah since I'm stuck using her card for awhile yet!

MamaBeth

SandraDodd@... wrote:

In a message dated 1/10/04 11:33:38 AM, instinct@... writes:

<< The thing is, I'm afraid that by the time we're done (never? :-)) we'll
have

spent at *least* $150,000 in late fees at the library. Now when were those

books due again??
>>

The libraries in Albuquerque don't charge late fees. They will suspend your
card if you ignore a couple of warnings, but you can renew by phone or online.
And it doesn't cost money to get your card reinstated, you just have to go
in person and say "Here I am, could you re-boot this card?" and they give you
the look they give to someone who's not bright enough to just renew on time,
and they fix it up.

But if you have three kids with library cards, you can use their cards when
yours is suspended.

How would I know these things!? <g>

Sandra


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