Meaningful Mondays

1. Lifelong learning:     a. Einstein: “The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”     b. Curiosity is more important than knowledge.”  - Einstein     c. “The mind is not a container to be filled; it is a fire to be kindled and stoked.”  - LMB 2. Responding – The Green R.      a. Red R versus Green R      b. Curiosity is the opposite of choosing sides.  - LMB 3. Growing—      a. “I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.”  - Eleanor Roosevelt      b. Misfortunes make us wise… when we ask why… not why did this happen to me. “Nothing is worse than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. People die when curiosity goes.”  - Graham Colin Swift

"When you look into the eyes of a child you see untarnished love, hope, self esteem, forgiveness and determination. For the world to have a bigger future, we must rediscover the eyes of a child."

"Wisdom is pure intelligence before the contamination of thought."