A sign-off episode for the OnlySchoolers Podcast as we take a permanent hiatus.

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.

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!

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!

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.

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.

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 

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!

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.

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

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

Check out the OnlySchoolers Cult of Busy playlist on Spotify.

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
• "Not my circus. Not my monkeys." - Polish Proverb

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

Check out the OnlySchoolers Fearless Homeschooling Playlist on Spotify!

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 are lost." J.R.R. Tolkien

Check out the OnlySchoolers Journeying Playlist on Spotify!

Did you guess what this episode was going to be about? 

If there's one thing that pretty much sums up the philosophy of the OnlySchoolers, it's Ownership of Education. Find out what it is, why it's so important to our homeschools, and how to make sure your kids are owning their educations, too.

Can you believe it? Christyn found a couple of essay topics that imply homeschoolers lack a sense of self and motivation! 

How crazy is that!?

Tune in to see what the OnlySchoolers have to say about them apples!

Gina & Christyn do a quick check-in on their guiding words for 2022: Ready (Gina's word) and Journey (Christyn's word).

The OnlySchoolers are talking tests & transcripts today.

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Our kids aren't the only ones who are learning something! 

In this episode Gina and Christyn talk about how homeschooling has been a tool for learning and growth for each of them. Three questions they consider are: What lessons did they personally learn as educational facilitators for their kids? What growth did they experience? What insights did they gain about themselves and homeschooling? 

Christyn and Gina share some of their all-time favorite reads for readers of all ages.