“We all get report cards in many different ways, but the real excitement of what you’re doing is in the doing of it. It’s not what you’re gonna get in the end – it’s not the final curtain – it’s really in the doing it, and loving what you’re doing.” – Ralph Lauren
“If you give a mouse a cookie, he’s going to ask for a glass of milk. When you give him the milk, he’ll probably ask you for a straw. When he’s finished, he’ll ask you for a napkin.” -Laura Joffe Numeroff
“Failure is the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely.” – Henry Ford
“Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child’s nature.” ~Charlotte Mason
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Variety’s the very spice of life, that gives it all it’s flavor.” ~William Cowper
“Unschooling recognizes that what schools see as learning is really just a small fraction of what there is to discover in life. Learning takes a lifetime, and the order and manner of gaining knowledge is not as important as making and reaching goals.” ~Aadel Bussinger
“Cleaning your house while children are growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.” ~Phyllis Diller
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” ~e.e. cummings
“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.” ~Marcel Proust
Adventures in Teaching My Own 