An Appetite for Knowledge 

  • The mind needs a steady diet of well-written books on a wide variety of topics.
  • Oral lectures, textbooks, and worksheets prepared by teachers rob students of the opportunity to think.
  • The mind will remember when allowed to observe, think, and share what is known.
  • Children observe by reading, listening to a read aloud, or attending with their senses.
  • Children think by processing what they observe, making connections, and asking their own questions.
  • Children share by retelling, reenacting, drawing, building, writing, playing, devising experiments, creating, etc.

The mind is a living thing.
   It feeds on ideas.
   It will starve without them.

The fount of great ideas is heaven.
    A steady diet of them yields
    A mind awakened to awe and wonder.

Think clear...