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Restoring America's Biblical Foundations & Give Away

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Restoring America's Biblical Foundations & Give Away

More Quotes

2011-07-23T11:36:00.000-05:00

"An educated people can be easily governed. "
~Frederick The Great

"Education is all a matter of building bridges."
~Ralph Ellison

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
~Oscar Wilde

"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?"
~Albert Einstein

"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."
~Albert Einstein

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
~Albert Einstein

"Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
~Albert Einstein

"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either."
~Albert Einstein

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
~Albert Einstein

"As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue."
~Albert Einstein

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
~Albert Einstein

"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
~Albert Einstein

"Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted."
~Albert Einstein

Information is not knowledge.
Albert Einstein

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

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein

Love is a better teacher than duty.
Albert Einstein

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life. ~Author Unknown

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog. ~Mark Twain

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. ~William Haley

Some Favorite Quotes

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“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
Albert Einstein

“Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire.”
William Butler Yeats

“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.”
William Wordsworth

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
William A. Ward

“Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife.”
Jonathan Schattke

“It’s interesting to reflect, that if all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within fifty years all other forms of life would end. But, if all human beings were to disappear from the earth, within fifty years all other forms of life would flourish.”
Jonas Salk

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”
Carl Rogers

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited.”
Plutarch

“It is our movements that not only express knowledge and facilitate greater cognitive function, they actually grow the brain as they increase in complexity.”
Carla Hannaford, Smart Moves: Why Learning is Not All in Your Head

“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.”
Galielo Galilei

“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
Robert Frost

“Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.”
Anna Freud

“Educators must ask themselves, ‘To what degree do I deliberately promote creativity?”
Susan Keller-Mathers, Building Passion and Potential for Creative Learning in Higher Education

“Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that comes from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.”
Deepak Chopra

“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”
Leonardo da Vinci

“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”
Leonardo da Vinci

“I do not teach children. I give them joy.”
Isadora Duncan

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
Albert Einstein

“Information is not knowledge.”
Albert Einstein

“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
Albert Einstein

“Most people see what is, and never see what can be.”
Albert Einstein

“Not everything important is measurable and not everything measurable is important.”
Eliott Eisner

“My chief want in life is for someone who shall make me do what I can.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Ability and increased potential grow hand in hand. As we grow, as we move, as we learn, the cells of our nervous systems connect in highly complex patterns of neural pathways.”
Carla Hannaford, Smart Moves: Why Learning is Not All in Your Head

“It is our movements that not only express knowledge and facilitate greater cognitive function, they actually grow the brain as they increase in complexity.”
Carla Hannaford, Smart Moves: Why Learning is Not All in Your Head

“My college students have commented that just having clay available to manipulate during a lecture allowed them to more easily take in information. Whenever touch is combined with the other senses, much more of the brain is activated, thus building more complex nerve networks and tapping into more learning potential.”
Carla Hannaford, Smart Moves: Why Learning is Not All in Your Head

“Neural connections can be altered and grown only if there is full attention, focused interest on what we do. In three weeks we can get ten times more proficient at anything if we are emotionally engaged with focused interest.”
Carla Hannaford, Smart Moves: Why Learning is Not All in Your Head

“No matter how abstract our thinking may appear to be, it can only be manifested through the use of the muscles in our bodies – speaking, writing, making music, computing, and so on. Our bodies do the talking, focus our eyes on the page, hold the pencil, play the music.”
Carla Hannaford, Smart Moves: Why Learning is Not All in Your Head

“Research in the neurosciences is helping to explain how and why rich emotional development is essential for understanding relationships, rational thought, imagination, creativity and even the health of the body.”
Carla Hannaford, Smart Moves: Why Learning is Not All in Your Head

“Self-initiated movement, exploration, interaction and physical experience for the joy and challenge of it, facilitates neurogenesis (nerve growth) for a lifetime.”
Carla Hannaford, Smart Moves: Why Learning is Not All in Your Head

“The human urge to create comes from the play impulse.”
Carla Hannaford, Smart Moves: Why Learning is Not All in Your Head

“Thinking and learning are not all in our head. On the contrary, the body plays an integral part in all our intellectual processes from our earliest moments in utero right through old age. It is our body’s senses that feed the brain environmental information with which to form an understanding of the world and from which to draw when creating new possibilities.”
Carla Hannaford, Smart Moves: Why Learning is Not All in Your Head

“Thought, creativity and learning arise from experience.”
Carla Hannaford, Smart Moves: Why Learning is Not All in Your Head

“Touch is a strong anchor in behavior and learning. If children are gently touched on the shoulder while they are reading, the brain connects the encouraging touch with the reading and helps to anchor the positive experience.”
Carla Hannaford, Smart Moves: Why Learning is Not All in Your Head

No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children; for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night.
- Theodore Roosevelt

The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
- Thomas Mann

Just some ideas...

2010-10-03T22:28:00.000-05:00

I just want to make a quick list of websites I'm considering using this year.
Standards & Goals
Alpha Omega Lifepac Placement Tests
Internet 4 Classrooms Assessments
Reading Competancy Test
English
Language Arts Test
The #1 Amazing Alphabet & Phonics Test
Free World U Pre-K to Grade 12

Edhelper
ABC Teach
Lesson Pathways
Grammar Blast
Free Homeschooling 101

Diagnostic Tests We Are Using or Planning to Use

2010-08-03T23:31:00.000-05:00

This is a tentative list of the assessment tests we will be using this year.

I like Mindsprinting for math assessment.
I really like the Amazing Incredible Handwriting Worksheet Maker alphabet and phonics test. I also LOVE the lessons that come after the test.
If you are needing official standardized tests Seton Testing Services has the California Achievement Tests at a reasonable price. We have used this to decide if a child is ready for public high school.
I am planning to use the Lifepac Language Arts tests.
Once we have finished the diagnostic/placement tests, I will use this Typical Course of Study as a guideline .
I will check off any skills they have already mastered and then focus on filling in any gaps before moving on to work on more advanced skills.