quotes
Illiteracy in the 21st Century: Quote
Friday, October 9th, 2009The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, unlearn, and relearn.
~Alvin Toffler
Children Learn in Spite of Us! (quote)
Monday, October 5th, 2009Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
~Abbé Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928
On Living a Life
Sunday, September 13th, 2009I’ve learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.
–Maya Angelou
It’s interesting how the terms “making a living” and “making a life” have had their meanings melded together over the past 100+ years.
Making a living is what people do when they get up, send their children to school, then come [...]
The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions…
Saturday, August 29th, 2009“There are 2 types of people: people who accomplish things, and people who claim 2 have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.”
–Mark Twain
Thanks to Darren at ProBlogger for posting this: it’s certainly food for thought. How often do we make elaborate plans, only to not follow through on them? If we spent more time acting out [...]
Who Should Raise Our Children?
Friday, December 19th, 2008“Hillary Clinton says it takes a village to raise a child. I’ve seen the village; and I don’t want it raising my child”
–unknown
Remember to Empower your Todlers
Monday, December 15th, 2008“Even in the kindest and most loving families two year olds must be reminded a hundred times a day, perhaps by words and acts of their parents, perhaps by events, by Nature herself, that they are small, weak, clumsy, foolish, ignorant, untrustworthy, troublesome, destructive, dirty, smelly, even disgusting. They don’t like [...]
