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Quote of the Quarter:

Not being able to do one's homework is one day going to be considered normal. Learning by heart and trying to remember what you have learnt is an outdated form of educating the young and it involves a lot of effort on behalf of the brain, which is not supposed to be that way. The most creative and successful people in the world didn't use their left brain to achieve their goals, but their inherent creative juices. Overusing the analytic part of the brain dulls one's creative genius and is a source of stress and depression. Why are so many young people rebelling against being pressurized in this way? Because it is so unnatural. Real education comes from within. I think your daughter is brilliant, and so are you.
--Andreas Moritz

(In response to a question from a woman who was asking him about her own learning style (not being able to focus, do homework, and so on) and her concern that she had passed it on to her daughter who has been labeled as autistic/Asperger's.  ...cite coming soon!)




Past Quotes of the Quarter / Other Great Quotes


 Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

John Lennon


FROM the Hudson Valley Sudbury School website


Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

Joseph Chilton Pearce


Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

John Dewey


We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Galileo Galilei


Learning is the discovery that something is possible.
Fritz Perls

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;
second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter.
Confucius

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect,
they are equal absolutely.
Aristotle