Inspiration for the Week

"One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child."

-Maria Montessori 

Inspiration for the Week

"There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air is softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again."

-Elizabeth Lawrence

Source:Think.exist.com

Inspiration for the Week

"An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life."  

~Author Unknown

Source: The Quote Garden

Inspiration for the Week

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

- Sydney J. Harris

Quote of the Day

"Each child brings to the table the gifts of his or her unique perspectives and insights."

- David Csinos in Children's Ministry that Fits

Quote of the Day

"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold nail."

- Horace Mann

Source: DailyLearners.com

Quote of the Day

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is,

and respect for what he may become.

-Louis Pasteur

Source:Daily Learners

Quote of the Day

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses. 

- Maria Montessori

Quote of the Day

"What makes people smart, curious, alert, observant, competent, confident, resourceful, persistent - in the broadest and best sense, intelligent- is not having access to more and more learning places, resources, and specialists, but being able in their lives to do a wide variety of interesting things that matter, things that challenge their ingenuity, skill, and judgement, and that make an obvious difference in their lives and the lives of people around them."

-John Holt

Quote of the Day

“The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. 

The child who concentrates 

is immensely happy.”

- Maria Montessori

Quote of the Day

"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves."

  ~Abbé Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928

Quote of the Day

"There can be no keener revelation of a 

society's soul than the way in which it 

treats its children." 

-Nelson Mandela

Quote of the Day

"Children are likely to live up to what 

you believe of them."

- Lady Bird Johnson

Quote of the Day

“Accept the children with reverence, 

educate them with love, 

send them forth in freedom.” 

– Rudolf Steiner

Quote of the Day

"Nine tenths of education is encouragement."

-Anatole France

Quote of the Day

"I have a great belief in the fact that 
whenever there is chaos, 

it creates wonderful thinking. 
I consider chaos a gift." 

- Septima Poinsette Clark
(American educator and civil rights activist)