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Jen Bookout
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“What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsibile, who know the value of the world and not its economic potential. It means art, it means time, it means all the invisibles never counted by the GDP and the census figures. It means knowing that life has an inside as well as an outside. And I think it means love.”
― The Stone Gods
― The Stone Gods
“There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.”
― Way to Be!: 9 Ways To Be Happy And Make Something Of Your Life
― Way to Be!: 9 Ways To Be Happy And Make Something Of Your Life
“Teachers don't just teach; they can be vital personalities who help young people to mature, to understand the world, and to understand themselves. A good education consists of much more than useful facts and marketable skills.”
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“The function of a child is to live his/her own life, not the life that his/her anxious parents think he/she should live, nor a life according to the purpose of the educators who thinks they knows best”
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“In the end, it's not what we keep our children from that will save them. It's what we put into them in the first place.”
― Believing It All: Lessons I Learned from My Children
― Believing It All: Lessons I Learned from My Children
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