"In classical understanding, education is the attempt to "lead out" from within the self a core of wisdom that has the power to resist falsehood and live in the light of truth, not by external norms but by reasoned and reflective self-determination. The inward teacher is the living core of our lives that is addressed and evoked by any education worthy of the name."

-- Parker J. Palmer

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“As a homeschooling parent, I have often wondered who learns more in our family, the parent or the child. The topic I seem to be learning the most about is the nature of learning itself.”

Source : Jan Hunt (2013). “The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart”, p.113, New Society Publishers
“It's frightening how much things change in seventy-one years.”
“The best thing about time passing is the privilege of running out of it, of watching the wave of mortality break over me and everyone I know,”
“I believe intelligence and fear are very close together. Guys who say they are not afraid of anything, they are stupid. They are silly to me...I am afraid of everything”
“I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put a few arbitrary marks on it that start me on some sort of dialogue.”
“Everybody is on drugs . . . just give 'em what they want.”
“I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.”
“Conventions, like clichÃ©s, have a way of surviving their own usefulness.”

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