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“The having of wonderful ideas is what I consider to be the essence of intellectual development.”—Eleanor Duckworth, The Having of Wonderful Ideas	Loose Parts: The Open Invitation of Play
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”—John Dewey, Democracy and Education
“The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’” —Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind
“The wider the range of possibilities we offer children, the more intense will be their motivations and the richer their experiences.” —Loris Malaguzzi, The Hundred Languages of Children
“Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.” —Alfie Kohn, Unconditional Parenting
“If it hasn’t been in the hand and the body… it can’t be in the brain.” —Bev Bos
“Let us not become fixated on the artifact, but rather see the richness in the journey of its making.” Diane Kashin — Small Worlds in Early Learning: Now is the Time
“The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.” —Jean Piaget, To Understand Is to Invent
Theme: Brahmavihāra in Action - Mettā MN 21 Kakacūpama Sutta - Pervading with Mettā English: "We will keep pervading him with an awareness imbued with good will and, beginning with him, we will keep pervading the all-encompassing world with an awareness imbued with good will—abundant, expansive, immeasurable, free from hostility, free from ill will." Translator: Thanissaro Bhikkhu Source: Access to Insight, https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.021x.than.html
Theme: Caring for Self & Others SN 47.19 Sedaka Sutta - The Bamboo Acrobat English: "When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself. And how do you watch after others when watching after yourself? Through cultivating [the practice], through developing it, through pursuing it. And how do you watch after yourself when watching after others? Through endurance, through harmlessness, through a mind of goodwill, & through sympathy." Translator: Thanissaro Bhikkhu Source: Access to Insight, https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn47/sn47.019.than.html
Theme: Practice in Daily Life Dhammapada 231-234 - Restraint in Body, Speech, Mind English: "Guard against anger erupting in body; in body, be restrained. Guard against anger erupting in speech; in speech, be restrained. Guard against anger erupting in mind; in mind, be restrained. Those restrained in body—the enlightened—restrained in speech & in mind—enlightened—are the ones whose restraint is secure." Translator: Thanissaro Bhikkhu Source: Access to Insight, https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.17.than.html
Theme: Brahmavihāra in Action - Mettā Sn 1.8 Karaniya Metta Sutta - The Buddha's Words on Loving-Kindness English: "Even as a mother protects with her life her child, her only child, so with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings; radiating kindness over the entire world: spreading upwards to the skies, and downwards to the depths; outwards and unbounded, freed from hatred and ill-will." Translator: The Amaravati Sangha Source: Access to Insight, https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/snp/snp.1.08.amar.html
Theme: Right Speech (Sammā Vācā) MN 58 Abhaya Sutta - To Prince Abhaya English: "In the case of words that the Tathagata knows to be factual, true, beneficial, and endearing & agreeable to others, he has a sense of the proper time for saying them. Why is that? Because the Tathagata has sympathy for living beings." Translator: Thanissaro Bhikkhu Source: Access to Insight, https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.058.than.html
Theme: Practice in Daily Life Sn 1.8 Karaniya Metta Sutta - Sustaining Practice English: "Whether standing or walking, seated or lying down, free from drowsiness, one should sustain this recollection. This is said to be the sublime abiding." Translator: The Amaravati Sangha Source: Access to Insight, https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/snp/snp.1.08.amar.html
Theme: Patience & Forbearance (Khanti) MN 21 Kakacūpama Sutta - The Simile of the Saw English: "Monks, even if bandits were to carve you up savagely, limb by limb, with a two-handled saw, he among you who let his heart get angered even at that would not be doing my bidding. Even then you should train yourselves: 'Our minds will be unaffected and we will say no evil words. We will remain sympathetic, with a mind of good will, and with no inner hate. We will keep pervading these people with an awareness imbued with good will and, beginning with them, we will keep pervading the all-encompassing world with an awareness imbued with good will—abundant, expansive, immeasurable, free from hostility, free from ill will.' That's how you should train yourselves." Translator: Thanissaro Bhikkhu Source: Access to Insight, https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.021x.than.html
Theme: Patience & Forbearance (Khanti) Dhammapada 223 - Kodhavagga: Anger Pali: "Akkodhena jine kodhaṁ, asādhuṁ sādhunā jine; Jine kadariyaṁ dānena, saccenālikavādinaṁ." English: "Conquer anger with lack of anger; bad, with good; stinginess, with a gift; a liar, with truth." Translator: Thanissaro Bhikkhu Source: Access to Insight, https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.17.than.html
Theme: Patience & Forbearance (Khanti) Dhammapada 222 - The Charioteer English: "When anger arises, whoever keeps firm control as if with a racing chariot: him I call a master charioteer. Anyone else, a rein-holder—that's all." Translator: Thanissaro Bhikkhu Source: Access to Insight, https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.17.than.html
Theme: Right Speech (Sammā Vācā) MN 21 Kakacūpama Sutta - Five Aspects of Speech English: "Monks, there are these five aspects of speech by which others may address you: timely or untimely, true or false, affectionate or harsh, beneficial or unbeneficial, with a mind of good-will or with inner hate. In any event, you should train yourselves: 'Our minds will be unaffected and we will say no evil words. We will remain sympathetic to that person's welfare, with a mind of good will, and with no inner hate.'" Translator: Thanissaro Bhikkhu Source: Access to Insight, https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.021x.than.html
Theme: Brahmavihāra in Action Sn 1.8 Karaniya Metta Sutta - Boundless Heart English: "Let none deceive another, or despise any being in any state. Let none through anger or ill-will wish harm upon another... So with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings." Translator: The Amaravati Sangha Source: Access to Insight, https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/snp/snp.1.08.amar.html
Theme: Heedfulness (Appamāda) Dhammapada 21 - Appamadavagga Pali: "Appamādo amatapadaṁ, pamādo maccuno padaṁ; Appamattā na mīyanti, ye pamattā yathā matā." English: "Heedfulness is the path to the Deathless. Heedlessness is the path to death. The heedful die not. The heedless are as if dead already." Translator: Thanissaro Bhikkhu Source: Access to Insight, https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.02.than.html
“To live completely, wholly, every day as if it were a new loveliness, there must be dying to everything of yesterday… The moment you have a motive for being attentive, you are no longer attentive.” — Freedom from the Known, Krishnamurti
“Let your values breathe like your parenting does. And when things feel unclear—when you’re in the thick of it—let them speak back to you. Not as rules. But as reminders of what love looks like in your home” -Rebecca

“Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom.”

—Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy.”

—bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress

“It is not possible to be a teacher without being a learner.”

—Herbert Kohl, I Won’t Learn From You

“Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.”

—Deborah Meier, In Schools We Trust

“Holistic education is based on the premise that each person finds identity, meaning, and purpose in life through connections.”

—Ron Miller, What Are Schools For?

“Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.”

—Sir Ken Robinson, TED Talk (2006)

“Imagination is what, above all, makes empathy possible.”

—Maxine Greene, Releasing the Imagination

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”

—Carl Rogers, Freedom to Learn

“The artist is not a special kind of person; rather each person is a special kind of artist.”

—Herbert Read, Education Through Art

“Any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.”

—Jerome Bruner, The Process of Education

“I’d rather see a school produce a happy street cleaner than a neurotic scholar.”

—A.S. Neill, Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing

“You can’t say you can’t play.”

—Vivian Gussin Paley, You Can’t Say You Can’t Play

“The function of education is to create human beings who are integrated and therefore intelligent.”

—Jiddu Krishnamurti, Education and the Significance of Life

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“The having of wonderful ideas is what I consider to be the essence of intellectual development.”—Eleanor Duckworth, The Having of Wonderful Ideas

Loose Parts: The Open Invitation of Play

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”—John Dewey, Democracy and Education

“The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’” —Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind

“The wider the range of possibilities we offer children, the more intense will be their motivations and the richer their experiences.” —Loris Malaguzzi, The Hundred Languages of Children

“Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.” —Alfie Kohn, Unconditional Parenting

“If it hasn’t been in the hand and the body… it can’t be in the brain.” —Bev Bos

“Let us not become fixated on the artifact, but rather see the richness in the journey of its making.” Diane Kashin — Small Worlds in Early Learning: Now is the Time

“The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.” —Jean Piaget, To Understand Is to Invent

Theme: Brahmavihāra in Action - Mettā MN 21 Kakacūpama Sutta - Pervading with Mettā English: "We will keep pervading him with an awareness imbued with good will and, beginning with him, we will keep pervading the all-encompassing world with an awareness imbued with good will—abundant, expansive, immeasurable, free from hostility, free from ill will." Translator: Thanissaro Bhikkhu Source: Access to Insight, https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.021x.than.html

Theme: Caring for Self & Others SN 47.19 Sedaka Sutta - The Bamboo Acrobat English: "When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself. And how do you watch after others when watching after yourself? Through cultivating [the practice], through developing it, through pursuing it. And how do you watch after yourself when watching after others? Through endurance, through harmlessness, through a mind of goodwill, & through sympathy." Translator: Thanissaro Bhikkhu Source: Access to Insight, https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn47/sn47.019.than.html

Theme: Practice in Daily Life Dhammapada 231-234 - Restraint in Body, Speech, Mind English: "Guard against anger erupting in body; in body, be restrained. Guard against anger erupting in speech; in speech, be restrained. Guard against anger erupting in mind; in mind, be restrained. Those restrained in body—the enlightened—restrained in speech & in mind—enlightened—are the ones whose restraint is secure." Translator: Thanissaro Bhikkhu Source: Access to Insight, https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.17.than.html

Theme: Brahmavihāra in Action - Mettā Sn 1.8 Karaniya Metta Sutta - The Buddha's Words on Loving-Kindness English: "Even as a mother protects with her life her child, her only child, so with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings; radiating kindness over the entire world: spreading upwards to the skies, and downwards to the depths; outwards and unbounded, freed from hatred and ill-will." Translator: The Amaravati Sangha Source: Access to Insight, https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/snp/snp.1.08.amar.html

Theme: Right Speech (Sammā Vācā) MN 58 Abhaya Sutta - To Prince Abhaya English: "In the case of words that the Tathagata knows to be factual, true, beneficial, and endearing & agreeable to others, he has a sense of the proper time for saying them. Why is that? Because the Tathagata has sympathy for living beings." Translator: Thanissaro Bhikkhu Source: Access to Insight, https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.058.than.html

Theme: Practice in Daily Life Sn 1.8 Karaniya Metta Sutta - Sustaining Practice English: "Whether standing or walking, seated or lying down, free from drowsiness, one should sustain this recollection. This is said to be the sublime abiding." Translator: The Amaravati Sangha Source: Access to Insight, https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/snp/snp.1.08.amar.html

Theme: Patience & Forbearance (Khanti) MN 21 Kakacūpama Sutta - The Simile of the Saw English: "Monks, even if bandits were to carve you up savagely, limb by limb, with a two-handled saw, he among you who let his heart get angered even at that would not be doing my bidding. Even then you should train yourselves: 'Our minds will be unaffected and we will say no evil words. We will remain sympathetic, with a mind of good will, and with no inner hate. We will keep pervading these people with an awareness imbued with good will and, beginning with them, we will keep pervading the all-encompassing world with an awareness imbued with good will—abundant, expansive, immeasurable, free from hostility, free from ill will.' That's how you should train yourselves." Translator: Thanissaro Bhikkhu Source: Access to Insight, https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.021x.than.html

Theme: Patience & Forbearance (Khanti) Dhammapada 223 - Kodhavagga: Anger Pali: "Akkodhena jine kodhaṁ, asādhuṁ sādhunā jine; Jine kadariyaṁ dānena, saccenālikavādinaṁ." English: "Conquer anger with lack of anger; bad, with good; stinginess, with a gift; a liar, with truth." Translator: Thanissaro Bhikkhu Source: Access to Insight, https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.17.than.html

Theme: Patience & Forbearance (Khanti) Dhammapada 222 - The Charioteer English: "When anger arises, whoever keeps firm control as if with a racing chariot: him I call a master charioteer. Anyone else, a rein-holder—that's all." Translator: Thanissaro Bhikkhu Source: Access to Insight, https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.17.than.html

Theme: Right Speech (Sammā Vācā) MN 21 Kakacūpama Sutta - Five Aspects of Speech English: "Monks, there are these five aspects of speech by which others may address you: timely or untimely, true or false, affectionate or harsh, beneficial or unbeneficial, with a mind of good-will or with inner hate. In any event, you should train yourselves: 'Our minds will be unaffected and we will say no evil words. We will remain sympathetic to that person's welfare, with a mind of good will, and with no inner hate.'" Translator: Thanissaro Bhikkhu Source: Access to Insight, https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.021x.than.html

Theme: Brahmavihāra in Action Sn 1.8 Karaniya Metta Sutta - Boundless Heart English: "Let none deceive another, or despise any being in any state. Let none through anger or ill-will wish harm upon another... So with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings." Translator: The Amaravati Sangha Source: Access to Insight, https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/snp/snp.1.08.amar.html

Theme: Heedfulness (Appamāda) Dhammapada 21 - Appamadavagga Pali: "Appamādo amatapadaṁ, pamādo maccuno padaṁ; Appamattā na mīyanti, ye pamattā yathā matā." English: "Heedfulness is the path to the Deathless. Heedlessness is the path to death. The heedful die not. The heedless are as if dead already." Translator: Thanissaro Bhikkhu Source: Access to Insight, https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.02.than.html

“To live completely, wholly, every day as if it were a new loveliness, there must be dying to everything of yesterday… The moment you have a motive for being attentive, you are no longer attentive.” — Freedom from the Known, Krishnamurti

“Let your values breathe like your parenting does. And when things feel unclear—when you’re in the thick of it—let them speak back to you. Not as rules. But as reminders of what love looks like in your home” -Rebecca