Quinn Cummings famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Homeschooling will certainly produce some socially awkward adults, but the odds are good they would have been just as quirky had they spent twelve years raising their hand for permission to go to the bathroom.
-- Quinn Cummings

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The process of socialization is nowhere near complete at age five or six, when modern children start spending up to half their waking hours taking their cues from other people's children. Because they accompany their parents' daily routine, homeschooled kids spend plenty of time interacting with people of all ages, which I think most people would agree is a far more natural, organic way to socialize.
-- Quinn Cummings

#Children #Kids #Thinking
Most of the homeschooled children I know have about the same amount of after-school peer time as the rest of the population but, obviously, without that school day together, they do spend less time with their peers. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is still open to debate.
-- Quinn Cummings

#Children #School #Together
All the homeschooling parents I know meet on a regular basis with other families. They organize field trips, cooking classes, reading clubs and Scout troops. Their children tend to be happy, confident and socially engaged.
-- Quinn Cummings

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And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.
Over futile odds, and laughed at by the gods And now the final frame. Love is a losing game.
Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain, a leader of sober judgment might well have concluded that we were finished.
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.
I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much. The scenes are tight, the play ends at the right time, you know exactly what the scene is about, but it seems flat; you can almost see that too many hands have been on the play. The individual voice is gone.
The hand is no different from what it creates.
You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.
No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.

Quinn Cummings famous quotes

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