“Everything doesn’t have to be done tomorrow. Any idea you have imagined, any project ideas, can simmer slowly in your mind and be offered to your student at just the right time.”
Jane Claire Lambert
Category: A Quote and a Question
a quote
Every single time I read this quote, I feel a shot of conviction through me. I can do better. We all deserve better.
Life is a canvas. Life is a musical. Life is a feast. Life is an adventure. I don’t want to have regrets about my life’s art when I get to the end. I want my life to look, sound, taste, and be gorgeous and transformative.
a quote and a question
“The sole end of education is simply this: to teach [humans] how to learn for themselves; whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.”
Dorothy Sayers
How do you go about making your homeschool a toolbox rather than a list of facts? How do you prioritize? What methods/subjects do you choose?
a quote and a question
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“We must be willing to be a beginner over and over again in order to live a full life.”
Jill Badonsky
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What are you trying? starting? dreaming? stumbling over?
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I’ve started Spanish lessons with Rosetta Stone.
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“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”
George Eliot
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Not a quote, just a reminder: Be kind today. Sift someone’s words and breathe before you respond.
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford
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What are you learning?
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“Wisdom, Happiness, and Courage are not waiting somewhere out beyond sight at the end of a straight line; they’re part of a continuous cycle that begins right here. They’re not only the ending, but the beginning as well.”
Benjamin Hoff
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In a culture determined to frame the world as a linear race, how do you remind yourself of the cycle? of the center?
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“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
Albert Camus
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How do you keep summer in your heart?
a quote and a question
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“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
Mignon McLaughlin
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How do you find ways to see a comfortably familiar someone with fresh eyes?
a quote and a question
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“Sometimes people tell me I am changing the world. Well, of course I am. You are too; we all are. One day, I simply started doing it deliberately.”
Amanda Jones
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How is your balance: are you making deliberate changes to the world more frequently than you are making thoughtless changes to the world?
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