Learning for Life: Educational Words of Wisdom - Homeschool Blogger

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"Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation." ~Jack Nicklaus (1940 - )

"No man can use his brain to think for another." ~Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)

"In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock." ~Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars." ~Les Brown (1912 - 2001)

Sat, 9 Sep 2006 09:39:00 -0500

The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life. ~St. John Chrysostom

Reading and Writing

Wed, 10 May 2006 11:06:00 -0500

Any man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. -- Mark Twain

For once the disease of reading has laid hold upon the system it weakens it so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the inkpot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing. -- from Orlando, Virginia Woolf

TV Turnoff Week! (April 24 - 30, 2006)

Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:06:00 -0500

TV Turnoff Week! (April 24-30, 2006)

�All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?� ~Nicholas Johnson

"I find television very educational. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." -Groucho Marx

"Given our national television habit, it is no surprise that we are raising the most sedentary and most overweight generation of youngsters in American history. As they grow, these children will run increased risks of heart disease, diabetes, and other health problems -- unless they turn off the tube and become physically active." -US Surgeon General David Satcher

"Television is a chewing gum for the eyes." -Frank Lloyd Wright

"Television is no substitute for a parent. It doesn't help develop language skills; it's simply background noise." -First Lady Laura Bush

More Quotations for TV Turnoff Week:

http://www.quotegarden.com/tv-turnoff-week.html

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 22:48:00 -0500

Students do not need to be labeled or measured by more than they are. They don't need more Federal funds, grants and gimmicks. What they need from us is common sense, dedication and bright, energetic teachers who believe that all children are achievers and who take personally the failure of any one child. ~Marva Collins

Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:20:00 -0500

"Timetables! We act as if children are railroad trains running on a schedule. The railroad man figures that if his train is going to get to Chicago at a certain time, then it must arrive on time at every stop along the route. If it is ten minutes late getting into a station, he begins to worry. In the same way, we say that if children are going to know so much when they go to college, then they have to know this at the end of this grade and that at the end of that grade. If a child doesn't arrive at one of these intermediate stations when we think he should, we instantly assume that he is going to be late at the finish. But children are not railroad trains. They don't learn at an even rate. They learn in spurts, and the more interested they are in what they are learning, the faster these spurts are likely to be." - John Holt

Sun, 14 Aug 2005 10:25:00 -0500

Religion and Education

Sat, 13 Aug 2005 10:18:00 -0500

The following 11 quotations have to do with religion and education, especially as related to public schools. Consider what these great men from throughout history to the present day had to say on the subject! Many more quotations on the Bible, religion, and education can be found in my book, Learning for Life: Educational Words of Wisdom. Click here for details: www.knowledgehouse.info/learningforlife.html