Sandra Dodd Quotes

#1. If your child is more important than your vision of your child, life becomes easier.

Sandra Dodd

#2. People learn by playing, thinking and amazing themselves. They learn while they're laughing at something surprising, and they learn while they're wondering 'What the heck is this?'

Sandra Dodd

#3. Strong and independent? I'm neither. I'm just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.

Haruki Murakami

#4. It only takes a second to do better.

Sandra Dodd

#5. When learning is recognized in the fabric of life and encouraged, when families make their decisions based on what leads to more interesting and educational ends, children learn without effort, often without even knowing it, and parents learn along with them.

Sandra Dodd

#6. All the arts, to varying degrees, involve some kind of a compromise. This being so, how far need the radio dramatist go to meet the public without losing sight of himself and his own standards of value?

Louis MacNeice

#7. Stop thinking schoolishly. Stop acting teacherishly. Stop talking about learning as though it's separate from life.

Sandra Dodd

#8. Unschooling is creating an environment in which children can learn easily and naturally all the time.

Sandra Dodd

#9. Some people can't leave school because they're carrying it around like a snail and his shell. They live there, still. School became an ingrown, hard part of them. They still define themselves by their school failures and successes.

Sandra Dodd

#10. The best function of the school in my head, as it turns out, is to remind me where not to dwell. I did my time in and around school, and learned things painstakingly and grudgingly that my children later learned while laughing and playing and singing.

Sandra Dodd

#11. Stop looking for solutions to problems and start looking for the right path.

Andy Stanley

#12. Given a rich environment, learning becomes like the air - it's in and around us.

Sandra Dodd

#13. Little Sandra Dee isn't supposed to smoke, you know. Or drink. Or breathe." - Sandra Dee, the actress

Dodd Darin

#14. Kids who are in school just visit life sometimes, and then they have to stop to do homework or go to sleep early or get to school on time. They're constantly reminded they are preparing 'for real life,' while being isolated from it.

Sandra Dodd

#15. For those orderly folks who have life all neatly arranged in their heads, who do more accepting than questioning, unschooling is a disturbing thing.

Sandra Dodd

#16. Nature has different times.

Michael Tippett

#17. You wouldn't understand anything that isn't drinking, smoking, or womanizing."
He shook his head. "You're the only one I want, Rose.

Richelle Mead

#18. School kids don't know the world is a million times bigger than school's version of it.

Sandra Dodd

#19. I will see you both in Goredd, then, when I clasp your hands across the smoking ashes of my enemies."
"Isn't that what you were trying to avoid by sneaking up the Omiga?" Kiggs said.
The Comonot considered. "Yes, but I like the sound of those words. Interesting.

Rachel Hartman

#20. I can teach you a lesson you won't forget in a hurry

Terry Pratchett

#21. I knew I would be an actor since I was seven or eight.

William McNamara