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Children, even when very young, have the capacity for inventive thought and decisive action. They have worthwhile ideas. They make perceptive connections. They’re individuals from the start: a unique bundle of interests, talents, and preferences. They have something to contribute. They want to be a part of things. It’s up to us to give them the opportunity to express their creativity, explore widely, and connect with their own meaningful work. ↗

— Lori McWilliam Pickert

#homeschool #homeschooling #learning #learning-process #project-based-homeschooling

You will not reap the fruit of individuality in your children if you clone their education. ↗

— Marilyn Howshall

#homeschool #homeschooling #learning #education

Your mission statement says Galer Street is based on global "connectitude." (You people don't just think outside the box, you think outside the dictionary!) ↗

— Maria Semple

#elementary-school #humor #mission-statements #school #education

When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn" - learning itself - by years. ↗

— Mike Schmoker

#efficiency #learn #learning #read #reading

Research experts want to know what can be done about the values of poor segregated children; and this is a question that needs asking. But they do not ask what can be done about the values of the people who have segregated these communities. There is no academic study of the pathological detachment of the very rich... ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#poverty-wealth #school-reform #segregation #education

Welcome to Hartford. The poorest city in the wealthiest state in the richest country on earth. ↗

— Susan Eaton

#poverty #school-reform #education

We get schooled by the people around us, and it stays inside us deep. ↗

— George Pelecanos

#schooling #education

When the atmosphere encourages learning, the learning is inevitable. ↗

— Elizabeth Foss

#education #homeschooling #education

The child, unhampered, does not waste time. ↗