The forest is magnificent, yet it contains no perfect trees.
Gye Fram

"When we face obstacles early on, we discover how to separate our identi­ties from the task itself – that means the failure of meeting the goal or accomplishing the task does not equal failure of us as people."
-Tracy Inman

"Every decision is a value-laden decision. Even a nondecision is value-laden, meaning, when you don't think through a choice on behalf of your child but instead let social norms decide for you, you adopt the values those norms represent."
~Marybeth Hicks from Bringing Up Geeks

"For the gifted person, the person who really wants to learn something, too much instruction is insulting."
Mortimer Adler

"There is no scarcity in the world of ideas; when someone understands an idea, its beauty is not consumed or used up."
John Mighton

"Never argue with an idiot. He'll bring you down to his level and then beat you with experience."

Not sure who said this, but it was hanging on one of dh's professors' doors in grad school. It always made me laugh.

My ds reminds me of this on a daily basis!

"Intellectual activity is the same, whether at the frontier of knowledge or in the third-grade classroom...The difference is in degree, not in kind."
Jerome Bruner

"Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny." -- Frank Outlaw

“Learning can only happen when a child is interested. If he’s not interested it’s like throwing marshmallows at his head and calling it eating.” - Barbara Lamping