— Herbert V Prochnow & Herbert V Prochnow Jr. in Jokes, Quotes & One Liners Volume 2
Quotes
School survival
— Jan Hunt in The Unschooling Unmanual
Drive Safe
— from Pam Thornton in Bill Wannan’s Come in Spinner
Silence
— Allan & Barbara Pease in Why Men Lie and Women Cry
Breakfast Symphony
— Herbert V Prochnow & Herbert V Prochnow Jr. in Jokes, Quotes & One Liners Volume 2
Trust
— Jan Hunt in The Unschooling Unmanual
Can’t Hit
Why Men Lie and Women Cry
Channel surfing
— Allan & Barbara Pease in Why Men Lie and Women Cry
Pets
— Herbert V Prochnow & Herbert V Prochnow Jr. in Jokes, Quotes & One Liners Volume 2
Trapped
— Claude Monet in The Unschooling Unmanual
So mean…
— Phil Wall quted by Thomas Lumley in Bill Wannan’s Come in Spinner
Crossed Wires
— Allan & Barbara Pease in Why Men Lie and Women Cry
Clean Towel
— Herbert V Prochnow & Herbert V Prochnow Jr. in Jokes, Quotes & One Liners Volume 2
Sharing Life
— Rue Kream in The Unschooling Unmanual
Threadbare
— Alan Marshall quoted in Bill Wannan’s Come in Spinner
Suffering
—Allan & Barbara Pease in Why Men Lie and Women Cry
Population Vs Environment
— Bob Carr on The Social Impact of the Population Boom, 7.30 Report, ABC1, 28 January, 2010
Blankets
Bill would say: ‘He gave me some blankets, thin enough to keep a bloke warm by making him shiver into a sweat.’ —Colin Hollis quoted in Bill Wannan’s ‘Come in Spinner’
Writing
There are no Pulitzer prizes for writing brilliant shopping lists. —Allan & Barbara Pease in ‘Why Men Lie and Women Cry’
Middle Age
Middle Age: When you are sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you. —Ring Lardner quoted in ‘Jokes, Quotes & One Liners Volume 2’ by Herbert V. Prochnow & Herbert V… Read More ›
Stupidity
Most of us never get too old to learn some new way of being stupid. —Herbert V Prochnow & Herbert V Prochnow Jr. in ‘Jokes, Quotes & One Liners Volume 2’
Tourist
Tourist: Have you lived here all your life? Old Londoner: Not Yet —Herbert V Prochnow & Herbert V Prochnow Jr. in ‘Jokes, Quotes & One Liners Volume 2’
Responsibility
…the transfer, by the parents, of so much of their own authority and responsibility to the schools is in most ways a cowardly and contemptible business… —John Holt in ‘What Do I Do Monday?’ Related articles Quote This: John Holt… Read More ›
Classrooms
…it is our responsibility as teachers to have in our classrooms what the children need, to make a rich and varied environment for them to live, learn and grow in. ‘The school won’t let me get anything’ is not an… Read More ›
Free Choice
But a man cannot say Yes to something with all his heart unless he has an equal right to say No. —John Holt in ‘What Do I Do Monday?’ Related articles Quote This: John Holt on motivation (undogmaticunschoolers.wordpress.com) Quote This:… Read More ›
Supporting Powers
Supporting powers is, of course, exactly what we do not do in most schooling. We do not give children extra time to work at what they like and are good at, but only what they do worst and most dislike…. Read More ›
Mice and Moonbeams
“They were as different as mice and moonbeams.” —Dean Koontz in ‘The Taking’
Cicero, 42 B.C.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among… Read More ›
John Holt in ‘What Do I Do Monday?’
“One of the things adults do, and above all in schools, is invade, in every possible way, the lives and privacy of their students. There are master keys to the students’ ‘lockers’ in schools, so that administrators may search them… Read More ›
Rafferty's Rules is Closing Down 