Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts

Thursday, 9 June 2011

Quote from Newquay Zoo about Naturism

Exclusive group visits are a big part of what we offer to the public and had no hesitation in agreeing to a visit from Nudefest guests - the majority of living creatures at Newquay Zoo never think of wearing clothes...it is about time some of our visitors did the same!
Carl Lamb at Newquay Zoo

Nudefest
Nudefest Press Release

Monday, 18 April 2011

Quote about the Purpose of Noses

"A nose keeps bogeys warm and cosy."
by DD1 (3.5yo), after some pondering. LoL

Sunday, 3 April 2011

Quote about Brain Training

Some will say, “But I we can make children smarter, why not do it?” Why not indeed? But almost all bad ideas start life as good ones, and I fear it will not be long before this seemingly good idea will turn into one of the worst... We have already been trained to believe that knowledge, skill, and wisdom are the products of schooling... Soon we will be told that intelligence is the product of intelligence training... Indeed, compulsory intelligence training – by certified trainers, of course – may only be a step or two down the line.

Chapter: Learning & Love, from How Children Learn, by John Holt.
 
Dr Kawashima's Brain Training anyone???

Saturday, 5 February 2011

Quote about national newspapers and literacy levels

Most children are expected to reach Level 2 at the end of Year 2 ... As an aside (as this is a book about maths not literacy) you only need to be operating at L2 to be able to read the Sun or Mirror!
P47, Maths for Mums and Dads, by Eastaway and Askew.

Friday, 28 January 2011

Quote about schools

"One reason that so few schools are any good at their work is that they are not serious. "Good" schools and "bad," private and public, with only a few exceptions they have always run under the rule that when learning happens, the school takes the credit, and when it doesn't, the students get the blame."
Teach Your Own, by John Holt

Friday, 21 January 2011

Quote about Dummy Use

" How has our modern culture become so backward that we imagine mother to be a substitute for a plastic object than to recognize that the plastic object is a substitute for a mother comforting her child at the breast."
Signature of Laura T (150), a member of Netmums.