The OnlySchoolers Podcast: Helping You Homeschool

The OnlySchoolers Podcast: Helping You Homeschool

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  • #QUOTES: The One Where It All Works Out

    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 have tried to succeed.” – Theodore Roosevelt
    • “Fortune befriends the bold.” — Emily Dickinson
    • “Success isn’t about the end result, it’s about what you learn along the way.” — Vera Wang
    • “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” — Henry Ford
    • “There is little success where there is little laughter.” — Andrew Carnegie
    • Listen to our The One Where It All Works Out playlist on Spotify.

      28 min
    • #QUOTES: One Thing Leads to Another

      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 other function do books have, the great ones, but to change the reader? Books to comfort. But most of all, books to disturb you forward." --Jon Cohen

      "Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another." — G. K. Chesterton

      "Dwell in possibility."— Emily Dickinson

      “No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.” — Amelia Earhart

      “One cat just leads to another.” —  Hemingway

      Listen to our One Thing Leads to Another playlist on Spotify.

      Thanks for listening!

      29 min
    • #QUOTES: Over the River and Through the Woods

      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 Einstein
      • “Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.” – Sir Isaac Newton
      • “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu
      • Listen to our Over the River and Through the Woods playlist on Spotify.

        Thanks for listening!

        33 min
      • #QUOTES: Defining Education

        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 original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
        • “Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.” – Chinese Proverb
        • “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” – Margaret Mead
        • “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” - Aristotle
        • Listen to our Defining Education playlist on Spotify.

          28 min
        • #QUOTES: What's for Lunch?

          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 cannot lick his own fingers.” – Shakespeare
          • Listen to our What's for Lunch? playlist on Spotify.

            34 min
          • #QUOTES: Chaos--A Force for Good

            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 knowledge—even wisdom.” - Toni Morrison
            • Listen to our Chaos - A Force for Good playlist on Spotify.


              Mark Hatmaker Video about Rivers 

              32 min
            • OnlySchoolers Classic: Books Books & More Books

              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 been challenged at some point. 

              What can we say? We like banned books!

              39 min
            • #QUOTES: The Thing About Teens

              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 care for a person…if you’re not afraid, you’re not doing it right.” - Jonathan Auxier
              • “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” - Ghandi
              • "If I Should Have a Daughter" - Sarah Kay

                Listen to our The Thing About Teens playlist on Spotify.


                32 min
              • #QUOTES: Wanna Go Play?

                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 children a chance to practice what they are learning.” - Fred Rogers
                • “Do not keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play.” - Plato
                • “It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.” - Leo Buscaglia
                • “It is a happy talent to know how to play.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
                • 38 min

                About The OnlySchoolers Podcast: Helping You Homeschool

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                What happens when two homeschool moms, each with an only child, meet at the local ice-skating rink and strike up a friendship?We’re about to find out…We’re Christyn Edwards and Gina Prosch, and we…