Education Quote - Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Magic Birthday Party

We're planning a magic birthday party for our son and found a bunch of great sites with good ideas.

We're going to turn it into a bit of a festival - with a magic show, a feast, and birthday cake, of course!

He's studying up on magic tricks and making supplies. He'll also decorate the house in medieval magical style and the kids will arrive in costume.

It's going to be like a second Halloween!

Education Quotes

John Taylor Gatto, "Teacher of the Year", New York:

Education Quotes

Education Quote

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll

Quotes about Children

"A child factually does not do well without love. Most children have an abundance of it to return."

-L. Ron Hubbard

Scientology Children

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The important thing is not to stop questioning.

-Albert Einstein

Are you concerned about children who are enslaved so that others can eat inexpensive chocolate products?

Kids for Slave-Free Products - these kids are. Find out how you can help.

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Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life. ~Henry L. Doherty

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“It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.”


-Henry David Thoreau

Subway discrimination against homeschooling families

Subway sandwich shops have a cute little contest.

Just adorable, except for that fact that they discriminate against some children - including homeschooled children.

In this contest, they start you off with a few options for story starters. Then the parent & child are supposed to finish the story.

This is how I finished the story --

The Race to Red Onion Ranch
Everyone gathered in the center of town for the start of the race except...

the homeschooled children. They were discriminated against and denied access to the race.

Even though their parents paid taxes like everyone else, and even though the homeschooled children volunteered many hours for human rights groups and community groups, they were outcasts.

The parents of the homeschooled children felt very sad for their children.

To cheer them up, they took them to Subway, which was the favorite fast food restaurant for the family, and where one homeschooling family of 9 frequently spent more than $50 for a meal.

There was a sign on the door, however, stating very clearly, "Homeschooling families not welcome here."

The family then realized that they would never spend another dime at any Subway restaurant again.

During this time of crises around the world - China, Burma, and Ethiopia - children can make a difference.

Youth for Human Rights
Free the Children

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"The highest result of education is tolerance."
—Helen Keller

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Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves

-Ernest Dimnet

Teaching

If one wishes a subject to be taught with maximal effectiveness, he should:

1. Present it in its most interesting form.
a. Demonstrate its general use in life.
b. Demonstrate its specific use to the student in life.

2. Present it in its simplest form (but not necessarily its most elementary).
a. Gauge its terms to the understanding of the student.
b. Use terms of greater complexity only as understanding progresses.

3. Teach it with minimal altitude (prestige).
a. Do not assume importance merely because of a knowledge of the subject.
b. Do not diminish the stature of the student or his own prestige because he does
not know the subject.
c. Stress that importance resides only in individual skill in using the subject and, as
to the instructor, assume prestige only by the ability to use it and by no artificial
caste system.

4. Present each step of the subject in its most fundamental form with minimal
material derived therefrom by the instructor.
a. Insist only upon definite knowledge of axioms and theories.
b. Coax into action the student's mind to derive and establish all data which can be
derived or established from the axioms or theories.
c. Apply the derivations as action insofar as the class facilities permit, coordinating
data with reality.

5. Stress the values of data.
a. Inculcate the individual necessity to evaluate axioms and theories in relative
importance to each other and to question the validity of every axiom or theory.
b. Stress the necessity of individual evaluation of every datum in its relationship to
other data.

6. Form patterns of computation in the individual with regard only to their usefulness.

7. Teach where data can be found or how it can be derived, not the recording of data.

8. Be prepared, as an instructor, to learn from the students.

9. Treat subjects as variables of expanding use which may be altered at individual will.
Teach the stability of knowledge as resident only in the student's ability to apply
knowledge or alter what he knows for new application.

10. Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any
knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.

— L. Ron Hubbard

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Education Quotes

Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.

-Chuang Tzu

Teaching Human Rights

Teaching Human Rights

It's vital that we teach our children tolerance, and why it's important to promote human rights.

Those of us who grew up a few decades ago had role models pushing for a better world. Kids today don't have that. Instead of hearing John Lennon ask us to "Give Peace a Chance" kids are listening to tales about Britney Spears and Lindsey Lohan.

With this lack of positive role models pushing for a more tolerant world, it's up to us to help our children understand why this is important.

Youth for Human Rights International is a group composed of kids who are trying to change this. They are making tolerance and human rights "hip" and they are helping kids around the world by promoting human rights for everyone.

This is from one member:
"It’s pretty easy to see what is fair, and what is right, and how things should be. Getting that to happen is something different, and we believe this starts with people knowing what human rights are, and knowing that they are entitled to these rights, and must grant these rights to others.

Martin Luther King Jr. said 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.'

People generally understand that you shouldn't discriminate on the basis of skin color or nationality or religion, but this happens every day all over the world. Wars are fought over these differences between people.

My parents and grandparents grew up in a time when skin color kept people from getting fair treatment and actually this is still happening today. In some countries, this unfair treatment is legal, but it continues to occur even when there are laws against it.

It’s pretty obvious that the demand for protection of human rights can not only come from governments, it must come from the people. That is why we consider it very important that we all know our rights, and insist that they be granted to ourselves and others.

It is completely natural that we are disturbed and repulsed by violence and threats of terror around the world.

Now we must take it upon ourselves to help each other, to get the declaration of human rights known and taught everywhere.

I believe that in using these materials, the booklets, the PSAs, all of it, we can really make a change, and I’m asking all of you to come on board with me, help get these rights known."

You can read more and get the PSAs (public service announcements) and booklets here:
Human Rights - Washington D.C.
Human Rights Group on MySpace

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Albert Einstein

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

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Herbert Spencer

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

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H.G. Wells

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Helen Keller

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One can never consent to creep when one feels the compulsion to soar.

Heraclitus

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Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

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Plutarch

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

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John Holt

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What children need is not new and better curricula but access to more and more of the real world; plenty of time and space to think over their experiences, and to use fantasy and play to make meaning out of them; and advice, road maps, guidebooks, to make it easier for them to get where they want to go (not where we think they ought to go), and to find out what they want to find out.

Bowling for Soup - music video

Click to watch this very funny rendition of Bowling for Soup's "Come Back to Texas" song.

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Theodore Roosevelt

To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.