"Children do not need to be made to learn about the world, or shown how. They want to, and they know how." -John Holt
Yeah, so what. I'm allowed to plug myself as much as I want!
As you know, I've been trying to get a handle on
blogging at WordPress these days because I can do nice, BIG pics but oh how I hate change. Well-
computer related change, that is.
ANYway... I recently braved the Lowell train station (solo, I might add) to visit a friend and her fiance to do a little downtown Boston photo shoot.
And lest you wonder about my intentions for including so much of "Bank of America" in this shot, well because it just so happened to be where he
proposed to her so many months ago. That ought to teach you to question me like that!
Check out some more/BIGGER pics over on WordPress. Thank you.
"By nature people are learning animals. Birds fly; fish swim; humans think and learn. Therefore, we do not need to motivate children into learning by wheedling, bribing, or bullying. We do not need to keep picking away at their minds to make sure they are learning. What we need to do - and all we need to do - is to give children as much help and guidance as they need and ask for, listen respectfully when they feel like talking, and then get out of the way. We can trust them to do the rest."
John Holt
"In the end, the secret to learning is so simple: Think only about whatever you love. Follow it, do it, dream about it...and it will hit you: learning was there all the time, happening by itself." -Grace Llewellyn
"What we want to see is the child in pursuit of knowledge, not knowledge in pursuit of the child."
George Bernard Shaw
Real, natural learning is in the living. It's in the observing, the questioning, the examining, the pondering, the analyzing, the watching, the reading, the DO-ing, the living, the breathing, the loving, the JOY. It's in the joy. ~Anne Ohman
"How could youth better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?" -Henry D. Thoreau
1 comment:
I must admit, I was questioning!
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