Quotes
Teachers must convey to children that the goal of instruction is thinking, that the responsibly for thinking is theirs, that it is sometimes desirable to have more than one solution, that it is commendable when they take time to plan, than an answer can be changed with additional information. Costa 1985
Despite all the immediate gratifications that have been on offer, we have not got happier. In fact, depression is now classified as one of the world's most prevalent illnesses.(Gerhardt, Sue, in her book, The selfish society.)
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others. Tyron Edwards
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
The key question is not, "where is my child in relation to the rest of the grade or the country or the world". Rather it should be, " where was my child before, where are they right now, where are they headed and how will we help them get there."
An education is about the whole child, self esteem, reslience, awareness of the world. It is not just being schooled and reciting the alphabet.Education takes a life time. ( Kathy Walker 2009)
You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762
