Education Quotes

Education Quote - Frank Lloyd Wright

2011-10-31T14:30:00.000-04:00

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Educational Quote - Ropo Oguntimehin

2011-10-29T09:38:00.002-04:00

Ropo Oguntimehin
Education is a companion which no future can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate it and no nepotism can enslave.

Work from home.

2011-10-27T13:35:00.001-04:00

Education quote - Alvin Tofler

2011-10-27T13:31:00.000-04:00

'We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies - images of potential tomorrows.' Alvin Tofler

Michelle Obama Quote on Education

2011-10-25T11:10:00.000-04:00

"I come here as a mom whose girls are the heart of my heart and the center of my world - they're the first thing I think about when I wake up in the morning, and the last thing I think about when I go to bed at night. Their future - and all our children's future - is my stake in this election."

-Michelle Obama

Free tarot readings

2011-10-23T10:10:00.002-04:00

Free tarot readings

A friend of mine is offering free online tarot readings.

She's really good, and worth an introduction! She offers full psychic readings through instant messaging (IM) and over the phone, too.

President Obama Quote on Education

2011-10-23T07:30:00.001-04:00

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.

US President Barack Obama

Desmond Tutu

2011-10-19T09:13:00.004-04:00

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”

Speechless - Kris and Dominique

2011-08-04T08:56:00.001-04:00

The Artful Gift Shop in Vienna VA

2011-03-24T23:13:00.002-04:00

The Artful Gift Shop - Vienna, Va.

Order handmade Christmas gifts or visit the shop in it's Vienna, Virginia location on Church Street.

Educaion Quote - Lord Alexander

2009-11-28T06:02:00.000-05:00

“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.”

Education Quote - Aristotle

2009-07-28T09:37:00.000-04:00

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

Magic Birthday Party

2008-06-26T14:25:00.006-04:00

Looking for birthday party ideas for your child?

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

2008-06-07T14:55:00.001-04:00

Education Quotes

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

Education Quotes

2008-06-05T15:25:00.001-04:00

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

2008-06-02T19:38:00.002-04:00

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

-L. Ron Hubbard

Scientology Children

Education Quotes

2008-06-02T19:21:00.000-04:00

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

-Albert Einstein

2008-05-29T13:34:00.002-04:00

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.

Education Quotes

2008-05-28T09:48:00.001-04:00

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

Education Quotes

2008-05-26T09:28:00.001-04:00

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

-Henry David Thoreau

Subway discrimination against homeschooling families

2008-05-25T10:21:00.002-04:00

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.

2008-05-22T14:39:00.002-04:00

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

Youth for Human Rights
Free the Children

More Educational Sites

2008-05-16T14:29:00.003-04:00

make a free non-profit website

Stay Safe on-line - tips for kids

Education Quotes

2008-05-02T14:25:00.001-04:00

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

Education Quote

2008-05-01T19:04:00.001-04:00

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

-Ernest Dimnet

Teaching

2008-03-03T04:31:00.009-05:00

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

Mother's Act

2008-03-02T16:30:00.001-05:00

2008-02-24T17:20:00.000-05:00

Education Quotes

Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.

-Chuang Tzu

Teaching Human Rights

2008-02-22T12:17:00.000-05:00

Teaching Human Rights

2008-02-19T11:42:00.002-05:00

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

Teach religious tolerance

2008-02-09T18:43:00.000-05:00

Ron Paul - and the gold standard

2008-01-28T18:10:00.000-05:00

Albert Einstein

2008-01-28T15:43:00.000-05:00

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

Education Quotes

2007-10-21T15:22:00.000-04:00

Herbert Spencer

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Education Quotes

2007-10-11T15:07:00.000-04:00

Education Quotes

H.G. Wells

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

Education Quotes

2007-09-30T12:14:00.001-04:00

Helen Keller

education quotes

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

Education Quotes

2007-09-26T11:29:00.001-04:00

Heraclitus

education quotes

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

Education Quotes

2007-09-25T14:46:00.000-04:00

Plutarch

Education Quote

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

Education Quotes

2007-09-24T11:00:00.000-04:00

John Holt

Education Quote

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

2007-09-23T23:57:00.000-04:00

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

click the link to see the video

Education Quotes

2007-09-23T22:28:00.001-04:00

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Education Quotes

2007-09-23T12:45:00.000-04:00

Education Quotes

John Holt

Education Quote

2007-09-22T15:55:00.000-04:00

John Holt

Education Quote

What makes people smart, curious, alert, observant, competent, confident, resourceful, persistent - in the broadest and best sense, intelligent- is not having access to more and more learning places, resources, and specialists, but being able in their lives to do a wide variety of interesting things that matter, things that challenge their ingenuity, skill, and judgement, and that make an obvious difference in their lives and the lives of people around them.

Make a free greek website

2007-09-22T10:42:00.000-04:00

You can make a free website for your fraternity or sorority. Freewebs makes it easy.

Schools, teachers, professors, clubs - you don't need to know web design to make a full fledged website

Education Quote

2007-09-22T10:34:00.000-04:00

John Holt

I have used the words "home schooling" to describe the process by which children grow and learn in the world without going, or going very much, to schools, because those words are familiar and quickly understood. But in one very important sense they are misleading. What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children's growth in the word is not that it is a better school than the schools but that it isn't a school at all.

Education Quote

2007-09-19T18:30:00.000-04:00

Confucious

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Education Quote

2007-09-17T12:03:00.000-04:00

Pablo Picasso

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Education Quote

2007-09-15T18:23:00.000-04:00

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”

Education Quote

2007-09-13T14:00:00.000-04:00

James Baldwin

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

Education Quote

2007-09-12T12:51:00.000-04:00

Charlotte Mason

The question is not,—how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education—but how much does he care?"

Education Quote - His Holiness Pope John Paul II

2007-09-06T11:49:00.000-04:00

I assure you of my own personal appreciation of Scouting as a magnificent experience and form of social and religious commitment.

By the way, if you have a scout troop, you may wish to create a free scouting website. It's easy - with blogs, galleries, forums, calendars, password protection, etc.

Education Quote - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

2007-09-04T11:20:00.000-04:00

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

I definitely agree with this. One thing that I find very disturbing is that most children in the United States never study our contract with our government. Learn the Constitution.

Education Quote - Sandra Day O'Conner

2007-09-01T14:16:00.000-04:00

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

Education Quote - Mark Twain

2007-08-31T21:59:00.000-04:00

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Education Quote - Albert Einstein

2007-08-30T11:36:00.000-04:00

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.

Education quote - Nelson Mandela

2007-08-28T11:40:00.000-04:00

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

Read more about Nelson Mandela, human rights advocate.

Education Quote - kids speak out on human rights

2007-08-28T08:09:00.000-04:00

The rights most violated... are the rights to express your opinion freely.

-Youth for Human Rights International member

Education Quote

2007-08-27T12:30:00.000-04:00

Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. -

Education Quote - Thomas Mann

2007-08-25T16:09:00.000-04:00

Thoughts come clearly while one walks.

Read about Thomas Mann, critic of Naziism.

Non-profit websites

2007-08-24T16:32:00.000-04:00

Oops! I'd forgotten to post the link the other day.

To create your own non-profit site for free, go to: http://non-profit.webs.com

Make a free non-profit website

2007-08-23T11:27:00.001-04:00

Make a website for your children or classroom.

You don't need to know web design - you can create a calendar, post pictures and videos, let parents know about items needed for field trips. You can request classroom donations, post your Amazon wish-list, inform parents of needed school supplies.

You can even give homework information and link to resources.

Education Quote - Plato

2007-08-15T12:11:00.000-04:00

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

I must say, I love this quote.

Education Quote - John Taylor Gatto

2007-08-12T18:20:00.000-04:00

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges; it should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die.

Education Resource - Children

2007-04-06T17:25:00.000-04:00

We recommend this booklet for teachers and parents.

It is all too common to find an unhappy state of affairs in families, with constant friction between parents and children.
It is not a natural state of affairs. In fact, it can be avoided entirely. L. Ron Hubbard developed many methods to bring out the best in a child—and its parents. In this booklet, you will read about some of these methods and discover how to raise a child without breaking his spirit, how to have a child who is willing to contribute to the family, and how to help a child quickly get over the daily upsets and tribulations of life.

Education Quote - John Holt

2007-03-29T13:09:00.000-04:00

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I don't think the currently popular "therapeutic" methods--which involve telling someone, "You're OK, you're really wonderful"--do much good. Tackling a job that seems worth doing, and doing it in a competent manner, is--to my way of thinking--the best way for a person to gain self-esteem.

Educational Resource - Thanksgiving Cranberries

2006-10-28T16:51:00.000-04:00

There are a lot of things about how to grow cranberries that you and your children probably don't know. This is a great time of year to learn about them!

For instance, did you know that they don't actually grow in bogs?

Do you know they get their name from a bird?

Do you know that they are harvested wild in some parts of the world?

Read about cranberries and how they grow.

Education Quote - L. Ron Hubbard

2006-09-16T14:54:00.000-04:00

Save the child,and you save the nation.

About Children by L. Ron Hubbard.

Education Quote - Pablo Picasso

2006-09-09T20:47:00.000-04:00

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Here's a great place to learn how to draw caricatures.

Educational Resource - Youth for Human Rights

2006-08-26T18:35:00.000-04:00

These human rights public service announcements are available from Youth for Human Rights International.

They are excellent tools for teaching the importance of the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, written by Eleanor Roosevelt.

Children need to learn their rights. They need to understand that we all have rights. And they need to begin to learn to do something about it. Children can help. Youth for Human Rights will show you how you can help children become solvers.

Education Quote - L. Ron Hubbard

2006-07-19T16:41:00.000-04:00

It is appalling how education tries to reduce all children to the same level mentally. There are just as many degrees and kinds of intelligence as there are children.

L. Ron Hubbard - Education explains more about Hubbard's educational philosophy.

Education Quote - Will Durant

2006-07-11T07:47:00.000-04:00

Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.

You can read here why Will Durant's work was "relegated to the scrapheap."

Education Quotes - Elbert Hubbard

2006-07-09T11:16:00.000-04:00

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

Educational Resource - Applied Scholastics

2006-06-28T15:02:00.000-04:00

Applied Scholastics is a social betterment program, created by the Church of Scientology. It enables people to teach others (including children) how to study better. Overcoming study barriers is so important!

Applied Scholastics - on the Scientology homepage.

Education Quote - Henry Brooks Adams

2006-05-12T09:56:00.000-04:00

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Education Quote - L. Ron Hubbard

2006-05-06T17:18:00.000-04:00

Knowledge is a total certainty and understanding of data and this can include objects, actions, spaces or areas, time and forms.

Education Quote - Aristotle

2006-05-04T11:39:00.000-04:00

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Education Quote - L. Ron Hubbard

2006-04-25T13:45:00.000-04:00

Slaves are made by giving them freedom from responsibility.

Education Quote - Wayne Oates

2006-04-22T22:29:00.000-04:00

Picture in your mind a sense of personal destiny.

Education Quote - L. Ron Hubbard

2006-04-21T20:53:00.000-04:00

It is a demonstrable law, not an opinion, that he who would enslave his fellows becomes himself enslaved.

Education Quote - L. Ron Hubbard

2006-04-20T11:02:00.000-04:00

Save the child and you save the nation.

Education Quote - L. Ron Hubbard

2006-04-16T14:34:00.000-04:00

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.

From: Teaching by L. Ron Hubbard.

2006-04-13T09:52:00.000-04:00

This is a great essay on the destruction of American education. I highly recommend that all parents read this. The link to the full article is below.

Destruction of American Education

The Concerned Businessman's Association of America

In recent years there seems to be a consensus that the American System of Education is in decline. At issue are decreases in academic achievements, as well as poorly maintained schools and facilities and limited resources and materials which make the job of education difficult. Overcrowded classrooms, school buildings in disrepair, inadequate supplies and equipment, and a shortage of text books all make for ineffective education.

Educators most commonly find the lack of available funding to be the greatest hindrance to providing a proper education. Parents who are able opt to pay their own children's private education as opposed to supporting tax increases for "failing" educational systems. This compounds the problem for schools in the public education system which allocates financial resources based on school enrollment.

Considering the consequences of a poorly or uneducated generation of young people ten or twenty years down the road, reform is imperative and perhaps late in coming. "Education Reform" is now the current topic and dominated President Clinton's State of the Union address this year. But such a reform movement has been active in this country, initiated at a federal level, for almost a decade. Education reform, one might assume, should address and improve instruction in academic learning and emphasize the basics of education as well as provide materials and resources to do so. This is not the case.

The emphasis of the current federal education reform program is away from improving academic scores and achievement and its priorities are "attitudinal" and social issues. While test scores are plummeting (the US is 47th place in the world in literacy!) the focus of "education" has moved to "the right attitudes and values".

First dubbed "America 2000" and now called "Goals 2000", The Educate America Act was originally initiated in 1989 at a Governor's conference headed by then Governor Bill Clinton, and was officially adopted at a federal level in 1994. This restructuring had been slowed for a time due to lack of funding. With reinterpretations of laws relating to certain federal funds the restructuring is now moving full speed ahead. School districts, much in need of funding, are being given federal dollars to carry out these goals. As a result, the public education system is being completely undermined and restructured into public health care. Medical and Mental Health funding is being provided to schools by reinterpreting qualifications for Medicaid benefits.

Destruction of American Education

Concerned Businessman's Association of America

2005-12-13T07:55:00.000-05:00

Albert Einstein

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

homeschooler's blog

2005-12-07T14:08:00.000-05:00

Ultra Marathon Runner supports children:

An Ultra marathoner with a mission to help under privileged children:

In a time of heightened crime, gangs, drugs, illiteracy and racial intolerance, where our children can view the disturbing images of man’s inhumanity to man with one click of the mouse, veteran ultra marathoner, John Radich of Monrovia, CA, with over 100 races run, has dedicated his life to bring hope to our children and our future, one mile at a time.

For the past 20 years Radich has participated in some of the world's toughest ultra marathons, including being a 5-time finisher in the grueling 135-mile Death Valley race, which is held in July in temperatures exceeding 125 degrees. Radich recently became one of the first two runners with a documented crossing of both Death Valley and the John Muir Trail combined by running the 211-mile John Muir Trail after finishing the Death Valley run and then finishing in Yosemite National Park. This past April Radich won the Arizona 6 Day Race, covering an impressive 361 miles over the 6 day span. In 1999 John ran all the way from Athens, Greece to Hamburg, Germany. And over his career John has run in countless 50 and 100-mile trail and road races locally and internationally.

Radich is always seen wearing his signature t-shirt heralding the message "Set A Good Example" taken from The Way to Happiness, a handbook of universal life principles that promotes self respect and values of trust, honesty and tolerance. The Way to Happiness book is published in over 90 languages and over 65 million copies of the book have been distributed worldwide, including programs in over 12,000 U.S. schools.

Throughout John's running career, he has endeavored to be a stellar example of world-class athleticism, sportsmanship and dedication to help our youth, who are our future. Radich works at the Glendale based non-profit The Way to Happiness Foundation International. Along with his fund raising endeavors, Radich is captain and coach of Team Way to Happiness running team.

In his continuing quest, Radich plans to run the High Desert 31 mile ultra marathon out in Ridgecrest, California December 4th. "I look forward to running with many top notch runners and meeting new friends who share our common interest.

“Ultra marathoners are a unique breed and many people can't fathom why we run these distances”, says Radich. But for John this challenge is not about status or ego, but knowing that he can do something to help many under privileged children who have been given a raw deal. “That means something to me. Kids count!” says Radich. “Sure the challenge of the race and pushing your body over 50 and 100 miles, running with no sleep and overcoming the aches and pains gives it's own personal satisfaction. Years of dedicated training, blood, sweat and tears and joys all come with the sport. But even better is being an ultra marathoner and putting my running to good use.”

Radich considers it an honor to help youth and feels that he is only as valuable as he can help others. “It breaks my heart to see kids involved with drugs, crime, broken families, kids committing adult crimes and even murder. Our society has gone morally bankrupt in these areas. It disturbs me”, states Radich. The Way to Happiness Foundation International is the group he has dedicated his support to since 1986 in his efforts to take a stand against these deadly trends.

Radich plans to run complete the challenging Nine Trails 35 mile rocky course through the Los Padres National Forest. John's goal is to raise $10,000 dollars to supply The Way to Happiness materials for use in youth programs. All donations are tax deductible as The Way to Happiness Foundation International is a 501c group. Do pledge:

Contact The Way to Happiness Foundation International at 800-255-7906. www.twth.org www.radichruns.org

2005-09-21T21:56:00.000-04:00

'TeenScreening' for High School Suicides Overwhelmingly Rejected by Florida School Board

Experts fear TeenScreen program is just another way to boost sales of anti-depressant drugs. "It's just a way to put more people on prescription drugs," says Marcia Angell, a medical ethics lecturer at Harvard Medical School and author of "The Truth About Drug Companies."

Largo, FL (PRWEB) January 30, 2005 -- In a move to protect its students from issues of privacy and wrongful labeling, Pinellas County's School Board voted 6-1 to bar pilot projects like TeenScreen's suicide questionnaire program.

The TeenScreen pilot program flies in the face of policy designed to protect the privacy of school children. Like many other counties, Pinellas has had a county-wide policy which prevents outside agencies from gaining information like students’ names and addresses. This has kept outside mental health groups from being able to implement programs they claim will identify information on students.

In addition to privacy concerns, many experts question the efficacy of programs like TeenScreen. For example, TeenScreen was implemented in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1997. According to a 2003 Tulsa World newspaper article, Mike Brose, executive director of the Mental Health Association in Tulsa, stated, "To the best of my knowledge, this is the highest number of youth suicides we've ever had during the school year - a number we find very frightening."

"What happens to all the normal and healthy children that are being wrongly labeled?", says Ken Kramer, an investigator for Citizen's Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit, mental health watchdog agency established in 1969 by the Church of Scientology. "It's tough to imagine the ramifications for a child going to school and then being told that he is suicidal or depressed, when he is not."

Kramer organized a website to distribute information about TeenScreen and county school policies (http://www.psychsearch.net/teenscreen.html).

The controversy of the program goes well beyond privacy and wrongful labeling. Opponents also contend that the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry has most to gain from TeenScreen, not the children. While a link has not been proven, even Columbia University, where TeenScreen was developed, seems to shy away from the point. Columbia recently revised a press release on their website to remove a statement concerning their donation of $19 million to TeenScreen. David Shaffer, the originator of the program, is a long-time apologist and paid consultant to more than one pharmaceutical company, including two makers of antidepressant drugs.

"It's just a way to put more people on prescription drugs," said Marcia Angell, a medical ethics lecturer at Harvard Medical School and author of "The Truth About Drug Companies." She said such programs would boost the sale of antidepressants even after the FDA in September ordered a "black box" label warning that the pills might even be the cause of such suicidal thoughts or actions in minors.

2005-07-27T01:21:00.000-04:00

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.
-- George W. Bush (on Education reform, Feb 21, 2001)

Link for today:
Retail Management Solutions

2005-07-04T23:13:00.000-04:00

Tom Cruise credits Scientology with helping him overcome dyslexia:

Tom Cruise says Scientology helped with learning disability

When I was about 7, I had been labeled dyslexic...

...I'd try to concentrate on what I was reading, then I'd get to the end of the page and have very little memory of anything I'd read. I would go blank, feel anxious, nervous, bored, frustrated, dumb.

After "Top Gun" came out in 1986, Cruise became a Scientologist and discovered the ``Study Technology'' the religion's founder, L. Ron Hubbard, developed in the 1960s.

I realized I could absolutely learn anything that I wanted to learn, Cruise said.

Now the 41-year-old actor is a founding board member of the Hollywood Education and Literacy Project, a nonprofit group that uses Hubbard's teaching techniques in a secular setting.

I don't want people to go through what I went through...

...I want kids to have the ability to read, to write, to understand what people are saying to them, to be able to solve life's problems.

More on Tom Cruise and his success with Scientology Study Technology:

Tom Cruise, Scientology Religion

Literacy Project in Boston

Tom Cruise, Overcoming Dyslexia

2005-07-01T21:35:00.000-04:00

Tom Cruise Says Scientology Helped with Learning Disability

The Associated Press

New York, July 11--(AP) Tom Cruise said he learned to overcome his learning disability through Scientology.

"When I was about 7, I had been labeled dyslexic," he told People magazine for its July 21 issue. "I'd try to concentrate on what I was reading, then I'd get to the end of the page and have very little memory of anything I'd read. I would go blank, feel anxious, nervous, bored, frustrated, dumb." After "Top Gun" came out in 1986, Cruise became a Scientologist and discovered the ``Study Technology'' the religion's founder, L. Ron Hubbard, developed in the 1960s. "I realized I could absolutely learn anything that I wanted to learn," Cruise said. Now the 41-year-old actor is a founding board member of the Hollywood Education and Literacy Project, a nonprofit group that uses Hubbard's teaching techniques in a secular setting. "I don't want people to go through what I went through," Cruise said. "I want kids to have the ability to read, to write, to understand what people are saying to them, to be able to solve life's problems."

2005-06-20T18:25:00.000-04:00

Education Quote

Aristotle

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Homeschooling Education

2005-06-04T20:34:00.000-04:00

Here is a great book for kids who know how to read, and now need to learn how to read in order to LEARN.

The pictures are fun, and the concepts are clearly expressed.

I use this book with my own children once they are reading on their own. This solves typical study problems, such as retaining the information, knowing how to USE the information once studied (application), comprehending what is read.

This is actually a brilliant technology - easy to learn, easy to apply, with excellent results.

2005-05-25T10:34:00.000-04:00

Education Quote - Thomas Carlyle

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Link of the day:
Tom Cruise - Church of Scientology in Madrid, Spain

2005-05-07T00:58:00.000-04:00

Education Quote - Barrell

The "Hidden Curriculum" Barrell (1991)

•The teacher "teaches" and the students "sit and listen" or learn passively.
•There is one "right answer" to any question, and it is in the book to be read.
•The answer to most questions can be given in one or two words, and no one will challenge you to go deeper.
•Books and teachers are always "right", and we learn only from them, not from any other resource in the room, such as our friends.
•If we wait long enough, a teacher will answer her own question, so we won't have to do much work. The teacher is the only one worth listening to.
•If we ask enough questions about a difficult assignment, we can get the teacher to make it easier and less demanding.
•"Thinking" is not something we talk about.
•If I memorize enough stuff, I can get a good grade.
•Most tasks and tests will demand recall of isolated pieces of information, and I will not have to show how concepts and ideas are related or how facts illustrate underlying principles.

Marriage Counseling

2005-03-01T17:55:00.000-05:00

Educational Quote

Ivan Illich

...we have come to realise that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school

Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends upon knowing that secret; that secrets can only be known in orderly successions; and that only teachers can properly reveal these secrets. An individual with a schooled mind concieves of the world as a pyramid of classified packages accessable only to those who carry the proper tags.

Link
Tom Cruise - overcomes dislexia with Scientology

2005-02-24T13:25:00.000-05:00

Education Quote

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays, and have things arranged for them, that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

-Agatha Christie

Family Advice

2005-01-01T11:47:00.000-05:00

Education Quotes

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

-Oscar Wilde

Link:
Buy Your First Home

2004-12-26T23:00:00.000-05:00

Education Quotes

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde

Today's Education Link:
Voiceover Resume

2004-12-22T13:14:00.000-05:00

My son has been learning to create websites. Geocities is a great place for beginners.

He's helping a friend who does VoiceOvers.

2004-12-21T23:49:00.000-05:00

Education Quote

After silence, that which comes nearest
to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963); English critic & novelist

Link:
Voiceover Resume

2004-12-18T13:51:00.000-05:00

Education Quote

Robert Frost

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.

Today's Education Quote Link:

Diabetic Cats

2004-11-28T16:53:00.000-05:00

Education Quote:

Helen Keller

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Today's Education Quote Link:

Here's a great site about glossaries and dictionaries. Basic Glossaries

We always try to keep a good selection of dictionaries and glossaries within easy access, wherever the kids not only study, but READ. Because knowing the meanings of words is essential!