Summer Season

There are plenty of quotes in the world about education. A sampling:

Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire. - W. B. Yeats

Children need models rather than critics. - Joseph Joubert

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. - George Bernard Shaw

Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow." Their name is today. – Gabriela Mistral

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. – Thomas Carruthers

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. - Aristotle

Yesterday was the last day of the 2008-2009 school year for the kids, and today I packed up my room and made like a tree. When I pack up my room for the summer break, I do so in such a way that you would not even know I was there, much less 86 kids for the previous 10 months. It's like a beautiful secret that will mysteriously reveal itself in August with the new school year.

I love a fresh start! And now I have an entire, exquisite summer, stretching out luxuriously before me, to plan for it.

:o)