~Notable Quotes~

"I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand."
 -- Chinese Proverb

"Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way."
-- George Evans

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."
--Albert Einstein

"My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school."         
-- Margaret Mead

"Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children."
-- Walt Disney

"Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in."
-- Leonardo Da Vinci

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."
-- James Baldwin

"Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve."
-- Roger Lewin

"What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children's growth into the world is not that it is a better school than the schools, but that it isn't a school at all."
--John Holt

"The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders."   
--John Taylor Gatto, NY City and State Teacher of the Year.