Favorite Quotes: No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. -Emma Goldman "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words,and never stops at all."Dickinson "It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to." W.C. Fields "With each of the thousand-and-one problems that present themselves in family life, our choice is between controlling and teaching, between creating an atmosphere of distrust and one of trust, between setting an example of power and helping children to learn responsibility, between quick-fix parenting and the kind that's focused on long-term goals." Alphie kohn "Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood."Fred Rogers "When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."Carl Sagan "If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility." - Longfellow "The opposite of a correct statement is a falsestatement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." Bohr "Don't let school interfere with your education." Twain "Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire." Yeats It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." Darwin "A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth." Einstein "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." and "On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow." - Nietzsche "Computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image." Hawking "I strive to listen with my own ears, see with my own eyes, feel with my own heart and think with my own mind. When I draw close to doing these things, I know I approach living and its then that I truly feel free. I wouldn't trade that feeling for 10 big screen tv's with the best show playing ever. Nor would I trade it for a million peers' approval." Brandon "We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow" Wilde "What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset" Crowfoot