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Grandma Linda’s Weekly Words of Wisdom
"What was so amazing about Linus Pauling is that even at ninety years of age he kept the enthusiasm and curiosity of a young child. Everything he did or said was bubbling with energy. Despite the early adversit and the later hardships, he exuded an obvious joie de vivre. And there was no secret about how he did it; in his own words: 'I just went [...]
Grandma Linda’s Weekly Words of Wisdom
"Students used to ask the Tibetan master Kalu Rinpoche, 'At what stage should we start to teach our children meditation and spiritual practice?' And he would say, 'Don't bother teaching it to them at all. What your children need to learn is what you communicate by the way you are. What matters is not that you give them spiritual practice but that [...]
Grandma Linda’s Weekly Words of Wisdom
I've been reading about the ill effects of chocolate and alcohol so I have decided to give up reading. ~ Facebook Status Shuffle via Stephanie Rebel Waldron
Grandma Linda’s Weekly Words of Wisdom
School people are fond of talking privately about bad parents, but they have no patience at all with the idea that schooling makes bad parents by removing their responsibility for their child's development, and by removing valuable time for parents and children to associate with each other. ~ John Taylor Gatto in The Art of Education: [...]
Grandma Linda’s Weekly Words of Wisdom
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done: school and prison. ~ William Glasser
