Children watch adults ever so closely. They inherit our view of the world and how life works. They start by seeing everything through the le...
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“When you judge you project your shadows onto others. When you love you project your inner light.” - Aine Belton
I've always been intrigued by the degree to which those things which bother me about other people are often the things that I like least...
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Final Pat Farenga Webinar in "Starting to Homeschool" Series
" Starting to Homeschool " is concluding its series of six Webinars for those interested in starting the journey to homeschooling,...
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Interview with Denise Pope on "Overloaded and Underprepared"
I interview Denise Pope on her new book, Overloaded and Underprepared: strategies for stronger schools and healthy, successful kids , as p...
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"There is no recipe for raising children to be successful adults, but parental warmth and affection make more of a difference than any other factor… The main finding… was that 'subjects who had warm mothers or warm fathers were more likely to be rated as higher in social accomplishments 36 years later.' - Radcliffe Study, Quoted in the Boston Globe (4/8/91)
I remain intrigued by the idea that to really help students, we need to be helping families. Not trying to transplant things from the family...
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"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us." - Marcel Proust
There is a difference between wisdom and knowledge. Knowledge can be taught, but wisdom must be obtained by oneself. Wisdom is self-discover...
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"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another." - G.K. Chesterton
A little self-reflection is badly needed right now. What do we believe about children, about learning, and about the role of education in a ...
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"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." - Paolo Friere
Here is the initial synopsis of Hans Christian Andersen's tale, "The Emperor's New Clothes," from Wikipedia : [It] is a sh...
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"All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them." - R. Buckminster Fuller
I've never really liked the use of the word genius in pithy quotes about education. It's always felt to me that claiming every child...
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"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction." - E. F. Shumacher
It's really hard to not do anything. To not solve a problem for someone else. To not create a program to fix something. But sometimes, n...
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Interview with Erica Renee Goldson - The Valedictorian Who Spoke Out Against Schooling
Today I interviewed Erica Renee Goldson , who in June of 2010 gave a valedictory speech at Coxsackie-Athens HS Class of 2010 that went vira...
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“Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.” - Mahatma Gandhi
There is reality, and then there are the stories or narratives that are told. Reality + motive = story. We see things through the lens of ou...
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” - Mahatma Gandhi. "Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the on...
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"Libraries were full of ideas - perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons." - Sarah J. Maas
I worry about libraries. I know, you're thinking: really ? There's a movement to take library spaces and turn them into proactive, ...
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Sponsorship, Collaboration, and Consulting Opportunities
Since almost all of my LearningRevolution.com events are free, I depend on sponsorships, collaborations, and consulting income to make them...
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"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own." - Ben Sweetland
There are other well-known quotes which equate knowledge with light. "He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself wit...
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"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming." - Goethe
Stephen Jay Gould, in 1981, wrote a book entitled, The Mismeasure of Man . From Wikipedia: The book is both a history and critique of the st...
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"Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it." - Harold S. Hulbert
This is hard. And it's not just true with children. Years ago I read a great article about the prison warden Dennis Luther , who's p...
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Food Is the Tobacco of Our Generation
A bold statement, to be sure, but I believe we will look back on our current food culture with the same how-did-we-let-that-go-on shock (ang...
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"For the love of money is the root of all evil." - 1 Timothy 6:10, King James Version of the Bible
I read something yesterday that stopped me in my tracks. From an essay entitled " The Treason of Intellectuals " by Chris Hedges ...
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"Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde
Every year or so our family spends an evening doing a personality test. We've done versions of the Color Code , Strengths Finders , Meye...
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"Ideas spread because they are good at spreading, not because they are inherently valuable." - Me
Ideas, or " memes ," spread because they are good at spreading. That is, there's something about them that makes it easy for t...
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"School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is." - Ivan Illich
Warning, deep thinking ahead... This quote profoundly expresses the way in which institutionalized forces, by having vested interests in thi...
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