Tag: parents
member name: Bill Allin
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August 30, 2006 07:41 PM EDT --
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.
- Thomas Pynchon, writer (1937- )
"They" are bullies, though they may wear suits. Like more traditional . . .
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September 22, 2006 07:10 PM EDT --
"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done."
- Vincent Van Gogh
I am convinced . . .
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May 24, 2007 11:58 AM EDT --
Schools have a mystique about them among many parents because teachers accomplish things with children that non-educators can’t fathom or even grasp the degree of their influence on their children. . . .
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August 02, 2006 03:39 PM EDT --
Shadow owes its birth to light.
- John Gay, poet and dramatist (1685-1732)
Without light, we know nothing about shadow. On the other hand, without shadow, we have no means of evaluating or appreciating . . .
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September 29, 2006 06:56 PM EDT --
"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."
- Sam Ewing, US writer and quipster
I never call anyone . . .
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November 10, 2006 09:39 PM EST --
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
- Emily Kimbrough, author and broadcaster (1899-1989)
This goes against almost every lesson that is taught . . .
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February 21, 2007 06:16 PM EST --
"Too many folks go through life running from something that isn't after them."
- Anonymous
All phobias, almost all fears (except bullying and abuse) and almost all worrying fit within this . . .
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April 25, 2008 09:26 PM EDT --
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
- Albert Camus, French writer (1913-1960)
Well, I do, Albert, so where are you so I can refute your statement?
Seriously, . . .
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July 14, 2006 05:30 PM EDT --
"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates."
- Thomas Szasz, Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry at . . .
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July 22, 2006 06:46 PM EDT --
If you want to have friends, be friendly;
if you want to be trusted, be honest;
if you want to be loved, be loving;
if you want to be safe, be brave.
- Gil Hardwick
The world is as bad as you think it . . .
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April 23, 2008 10:15 PM EDT --
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome . . .
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May 25, 2008 07:12 PM EDT --
"We must be the change we wish to see in the world"
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
As much of an ardent admirer as I am of Mohandas Gandhi--his philosophy of life, learned by me as a child, helped . . .
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June 09, 2008 07:11 PM EDT --
Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.
- Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister (1804-81) . . .
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July 01, 2006 06:55 PM EDT --
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
- English Proverb
This proverb was obviously cast by someone who had a father who was a mentor, a guide to life skills and a friend. Someone who had a . . .
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April 27, 2008 05:09 PM EDT --
When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business.
- Lenny Bruce, comedian (1925-1966)
It's a good laugh line for a comedian. Just about everyone remembers that when they were eight . . .
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May 20, 2008 08:43 PM EDT --
The internet and technology associated with it have opened access to quantities of information unparalleled in human history. No emperor of Rome, monarch of the British Empire or ruler of any other empire . . .
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June 14, 2008 07:44 PM EDT --
I came across a wealth of quotable material from American writer Robert
Fulghum. For me to add to these would be guilding the lilly, so I offer
them unenhanced.
Robert Fulghum ((born 4 June 1937) . . .
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March 02, 2009 05:12 PM EST --
By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American
education. ... From television, the child will have learned how to pick a
lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent . . .
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August 13, 2009 08:10 PM EDT --
When Should Children Be Taught Certain Facts and Skills?
In response to an article I wrote recently about teaching information, facts and skills to children much earlier than most adults think . . .
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April 14, 2008 07:02 PM EDT --
"A child is a person who is going to carry on whatever you have started. He is going to sit where you are sitting and when you are gone, attend to those things which you think are important. You . . .
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