“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
“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
