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People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle

 

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If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its inhabitants.

 

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Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men [sic] -- go freely with powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and with the mothers or families -- re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

 

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Unitarian Universalism affirms:

That Creation is too grand, complex, and mysterious to be captured in a narrow creed. That is why we cherish individual freedom of belief. At the same time our convictions lead us to other affirmations . . .

 

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As far as I know, to date, this Earth is the only thing we have at our disposal. The trick is to NOT dispose of it, yanno?

 

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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

 

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It takes a village to raise a child.

 

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It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

 

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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

 

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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.



Anatole France:

 

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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

 

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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards

 

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The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.

 

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Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

 

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Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

 

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Your ability to learn faster than your competition is your only sustainable competitive advantage.

 

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Education is the transmission of civilization.

 

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All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

 

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Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

 

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Learning from experience is a faculty