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I've been looking for some quotes/poems etc that are relevant and inspiring to HE to stick in the cover of my diary mostly to give me comfort on a 'bad' day or when I've had a negative comment or 2 . I found these:

'Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.'
B. F. Skinner (1904 - 1990), New Scientist, May 21, 1964

'School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come.'
Dave Kellett, Sheldon, 10-09-11

Anyone know any more I can add? I read a poem called 'Why do we go to school dad?' by Allan Ahlberg but can' find it anywhere...

“ I believe that we learn best when we, not others are deciding what we are going to learn, and when we are choosing the people, materials, and experiences from which we will be learning" John Holt.

Not necessarily in support of home education rather education as a whole. But I still like it.

When my wife and I began, we had one main idea … to make the school fit the child instead of making the child fit the school."
(A.S. Neil, 1937)

Thank you

Everybody has the potential to be a genius. If you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree, it will forever think of it's self as useless.

(Or something like that.) It's by Albert Einstein.

I also love a response I heard to the usual question "Aren't you concerned about socialisation?" "Of corse! That's why we home school".

There is also a little poem I like.

I tried to teach my child with books.
She only gave me puzzled looks.

Itried to teach my child with words.
They often passed her by unheard.

Dispairingly, I turned aside.
"How can I teach this child" I cried.

Into my hand, she put the key.
"Come", she said "play with me".

Oh and...
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limmited, but imagination encircles the world.

Also Einstein.

o.k, I'll go now.

Thanks MLL, I loved those - both new to me!

I put this at the top of my Ed phil.
"Education Is Not the Filling of a Pail, But the Lighting of a Fire" - falsely attributed to WB Yeats.
I havent heard anything from the LEA for 15 months so maybe I scared them off (I suspect the actual reason is lack of staff!)

at scaring off the LA. I hope it wasn't just stafing issues. That is a geat quote!

Print this out: Calvin and Hobbes Snowflake Show and Tell.

love the Calvin and Hobbs. the one about imaginary numbers is very good too!