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Grandma Linda’s Weekly Words of Wisdom
"The problem is fundamental. Put 20 or more children of roughly the same age in a little room, confine them to desks, make them wait in line, make them behave. It is as if a secret committee, now lost to history, had made a study of children and, having figured out what the greatest number were least disposed to do, declared that all of them [...]
Grandma Linda’s Weekly Words of Wisdom
"I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma." ~ L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz
Grandma Linda’s Weekly Words of Wisdom
"As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it." ~ John Adams
Grandma Linda’s Weekly Words of Wisdom
"Yet for all the astonishing statistics, more astonishing still is that no one seems to be listening." ~ Benjamin R. Barber "America Skips School," Harper's, November, 1993 If you like this quote, you'll find many more in the pages of The Art of Education: Reclaiming Your Family, Community and Self - 15th Anniversary Edition by Linda [...]
Grandma Linda’s Weekly Words of Wisdom
'To find and appreciate beauty in the ordinary and the extraordinary is the right of every child for esthetic experience is a basic need of all men in their universal struggle to add meaning to life. We owe to children the freedom to explore the full range of their senses; to appreciate subtle differences; to be aware of beauty wherever it is [...]
