The OnlySchoolers Podcast: Helping You Homeschool

Here are the famous quotations the OnlySchoolers are talking about in this episode.

• “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
  ― Winston S. Churchill
• “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
  ― Leonardo da Vinci
• “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to h...

Here are the famous quotations the OnlySchoolers are talking about in this episode.

“If you give a mouse a cookie, he's going to ask for a glass of milk. When you give him the milk, he'll probably ask you for a straw. When he's finished, he'll ask you for a napkin. Then he'll want to look in a mirror to make sure he doesn't have a milk mustache.” --Laura Numeroff

"'Curiouser and curiouser,' cried Alice." -- Lewis Carroll

"What othe...

Here are the famous quotations the OnlySchoolers are talking about in this episode.

• “And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.” - John Muir
• “The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” —Henri Matisse
• “We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.” – Albert Ein...

Here are the famous quotations the OnlySchoolers are talking about in this episode.

• “Education is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think.” – Einstein
• “Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.” – Alexandre Dumas
• “A man’s mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its orig...

Here are the famous quotations the OnlySchoolers are talking about in this episode.

• “An army marches on its stomach.” – Napoleon
• “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world..” – J.R.R. Tolkien
• “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” – Virginia Woolf
• “He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.” – Jonathan Swift
• “Tis an ill cook that ca...

Here are the famous quotations the OnlySchoolers are talking about in this episode.

• “By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.” - Shakespeare
• “Awake, chaos; we have napped.” - e.e. cummings
• “In all chaos, there is a cosmos, in all disorder, a secret order.” - Carl Jung
• “Without order, nothing can exist—without chaos, nothing can evolve.” - Oscar Wilde
• “Chaos contains information that can lead to kn...

Every September, Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to write books that express differing ideas and experiences, as well as the freedom to access, choose, and read books that expand our learning.

Here at the OnlySchoolers, we are book lovers. Banned Books Week was last week, but today we’d like to replay this episode from Season 3 where we talk about some of the books we love…and, as it turns out, a fair number of them have b...

Here's the list of the #QUOTES we're talking about during this episode devoted to Teens.

• “Small children disturb your sleep; big children, your life.” - Yiddish proverb
• “Little children, headache; big children, heartache.” - Italian proverb.
• “The average teenager still has all the faults his parents outgrew.” - Unknown
• “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” - e.e. cummings
• “That’s what it is to ca...

The OnlySchoolers are talking Early Childhood in this episode, and the quotes we're tackling are:

• “Play is the work of childhood.” - Jean Piaget
• “Play is the work of the child.” - Maria Montessori
• “Play is the work of children. It’s very serious stuff.” - Captain Kangaroo
• “Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children, play is serious learning.” - Fred Rogers
• “Play gives c...

Here are the quotes we'll be talking about during this episode of the podcast.

• “Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” - Socrates
• “Every man is worth just so much as the things about which he busies himself.” - Marcus Aurelius
• "It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. What are we busy about?” - Henry David Thoreau
• “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” - Ghandi

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What #QUOTES are we talking about this episode?

• “Good fences make good neighbors.” - Robert Frost
• No is a complete sentence.” - Anne Lamott
• “Don’t set yourself on fire trying to keep others warm.” - Penny Reid
• “Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.” - G.K. Chesterton
• “Your personal boundaries protect the inner core of your identity and your right to choices.” - Gerard Manley Hopkins
• "N...

Here are the quotes we're looking at during this episode:

• “Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.” -- Frederick Buechner
• “Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.” -- Benjamin Franklin
• “Beware for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” -- Mary Shelley
• “The question isn’t about who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” -- Ayn Rand

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Quirky and Unusual: the OnlySchoolers Take on Excerpts and Sayings or #QUOTES

• "Life is a journey, not a destination." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Throughout the centuries, there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision." -- Ayn Rand
• "Start by doing what is necessary, then do what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible." St. Francis of Assisi
• "Not all those who wander ...