QuotesNow the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. ~ 2 Corinthians 3:17 .... a free man ought not to learn anything under duress. Compulsory physical exercise does no harm to the body, but compulsory learning never sticks to the mind. ~ Plato We hold that the child's mind is no mere sac to hold ideas; but is rather, if the figure may be allowed, a spiritual organism, with an appetite for all knowledge. This is its proper diet, with which it is prepared to deal; and which it can digest and assimilate as the body does foodstuffs. ~ Charlotte Mason (Principle 9 of her Educational Manifesto) Unschooling works well when parents are interesting, positive, thoughtful, considerate, generous, passionate, honest, respectful individuals. ~ Deb Lewis How colorfully and scientifically our generation talks down to the little child! What insipid, stupid, dull stories are trotted out... We don’t respect the children’s thinking or let them come to any conclusions themselves! We ply them with endless questions, the ones we’ve thought up, instead of being silent and letting the child’s questions bubble up with interest. ~ S Schaeffer Macaulay: For the Children’s Sake I would say that living an interesting life is more instructive than formal learning could ever be. ~ Lesley Clark There should be no more pressure on a child to learn than there is on a rose to grow. I can’t coerce a rosebud to open its petals and bloom before its time. It simply unfolds on its own. But even before it buds, one can tell that a rose is a rose, distinct and unique. ~ Debra Elramey Of course, a child may not know what he may need to know in ten years (who does?), but he knows, and much better than anyone else, what he wants and needs to know right now, what his mind is ready and hungry for. ~ John Holt A child is a person in whom all possibilities are present - present now at this very moment - not to be educed after many years and efforts manifold on the part of the educator. ~ Charlotte Mason In the end, the secret to learning is so simple: Think only about whatever you love. Follow it, do it, dream about it...and it will hit you: learning was there all the time, happening by itself. ~ Grace Llewellyn We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way. ~ John Holt We learn because we want to learn, because it’s important to us, because it's natural, and because it’s impossible to live in the world and not learn. ~ Peggy Pirro There is no difference between living and learning... it is impossible and misleading and harmful to think of them as being separate. ~ John Holt Ancora Imparo (I am still learning) ~ Michelangelo Buonarroti, Age 82
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