Wednesdays with Words: The Living Page by Laurie Bestvater

It is hard for me to pick and choose quotes to share here, because of course I want to save the very best for when I have a chance to blog a bit about the book. But I have to share something today, and this is what I have been reading.

Here is a sampling…

This quality of being “all eyes and ears” is clearly a gift that children arrive with and which sadly they lose or have educated out of them. She notices that grown-ups who manage to preserve it have “a certain freshness, gentleness and capacity of being pleased” like unto a child and she spends the rest of her life in the service of this Grand Invitation: “to be converted and become like little children.” {p. 94}

The Living Page by Laurie Bestvater {affiliate link}

“Studies serve for delight.” Education is not about how much we know but how much we love and care. What are our notebooks if not a means to return to all the things we love and care about? Such knowledge is the natural by-product of working with and not against the Natural Law of the learner. If we put the cart before the horse and seek only the knowledge and achievement without the caring, we may endanger both, participating in what Quentin Schultze aptly calls “informational promiscuity.” {p. 97}

What we become keepers of determines whom we become. {p. 99}