Willow Academy

May. 1, 2008

Rewards

Just wanted to share this poem I just had sent to me...

Today

While out amongst the dirt and weeds

I found all of my schooling needs,

The Alphabet from A-Z,

And all about the birds and bees,

Why were the birds flying so high

And why have all the bees gone goodbye?

Questions from the baby's mouths

Come so much quicker out of the house.

This root is so long, this one is so thin,

Is this how the earth has always been?

Science, Socials, English and Math

Are all brought forward on the garden path.

Remembering our true Creator

I saw that I was meant to tutor

These little ones He gave me to treasure

And I am the one who gets the pleasure!

How could I let someone else take this joy?

I will teach all my girls and boys!

Kari Taylor

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I love nature, sewing, scouting and quotes...An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life. Unknown----------------------------- Happy moments, praise God. Difficult moments, seek God. Quiet moments, worship God. Painful moments, trust God. Every moment, thank God. Unknown---------------------------------- "I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself, instead of sitting indoors at a little round table, while a sweet-voiced teacher suggests that he build a stone wall with his wooden blocks, or make a rainbow out of strips of coloured paper, or plant straw trees in bead flower-pots. Such teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of, before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experience." -- Anne Sullivan