Family Home Evening, August 20, 2007

Good Monday Evening to Everyone,

Summer is over and kids are heading back to school this week. The first day of school is always so exciting and unnerving.
We pray that you will have a successful and effective new year of learning!

We have wonderful memories of taking you to Sheridan Elementary, reading the student lists by the door, and finding your seat. We loved going to the Parent Teacher Conferences because we would always get great reports.

What have you learned lately? Keep on learning!

Thoughts on the subject of education:

". . . the glory of God is intelligence."

The iliterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Alvin Toffler

What, then, is true education? It is awakening a love for truth, a just sense of duty, opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life. It is not teaching the individual to love the good for personal sake, it is to teach him to love the good for the sake of the good itself; to be virtuous in action because he is so in heart; to love and serve God supremely, not from fear, but from delight in His perfect character--David O. McKay

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. Anatole France

Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. Arthur Koestler

Learn of me, and listen to my words; walk in the meekness of my Spirit, and you shall have peace in me. D&C: 19:23

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Be wise, and keep learning!

We love you very much!

Mom and Dad