I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
-Chinese Proverb
Charlie struggles to get all of his school stuff into his backpack.
"Weren't you here when we had a session about how to do that?" the teacher asks.
"I was here but I forgot." says the ten year old.
The teacher empties the backpack. "Watch. Put your books in like this," he says demonstrating
how to put the books in so their titles are visible."
"Now, try again," he tells Charlie.
Charlie slides in two spiral-backed notebooks, his grammar text and workbook and a math book and stuffs in a snack. "It all fits," he grins.
At the after-school club, Charlie drops the backpack to the floor while he opens his locker.
Nothing spills.
"See that," he says to his friend Kevin, who's scrambling after papers that slid out of his canvas back. "Packed it myself."
*Patience with children teaches not only the lesson at hand, but also gives children the pride of accomplishment that is necessary for building faith in themselves.
(Source: For the Love of Children: Daily affirmations For People Who Care for Children
by Jean Steiner and Mary Steiner Whelan)
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Lewis Carrol
"Do we decide questions at all? We decide answers no doubt, but surely the questions decide us."
- Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland
PB Medawar
"The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it."
-PB Medawar
-PB Medawar
Eda Leshan
“One of the most important things we can do is to send a child home in the afternoon liking himself just a little better than when he came in the morning.”
John Dewey
"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination."
- John Dewey
Albert Einstein
“To herd children for mere safekeeping without concern for their emotional and intellectual needs makes them dull in thought and feeling.”
-Albert Einstein
-Albert Einstein
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