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"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

I LOVE that qoute, Inky. I've seen it before, and I think it's dead-on!

My variation lately, based on my own experience, is "You can lead a child to homeschooling, but you can't make him learn."

If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice

Rush

�Energy and persistence alter all things.�
� Benjamin Franklin