Awaking Wonder Quotes

“Education is not about enacting a prescriptive, boxed sort of curriculum-based classroom, but instead is about passing on a legacy of a love for learning, an independent joy in discovery, a motivation to bring light, beauty, and goodness back into the world of our children.”
― Sally Clarkson, Awaking Wonder: Opening Your Child's Heart to the Beauty of Learning

“God entrusted our children into our hands as one of the best works for which we answer to Him. He gave us the stewardship of shaping, investing in, and inspiring for His glory these little human beings entrusted into our hands by His love and design. Because I had committed my whole life to Christ, one way for me to worship God was to serve these precious human beings He entrusted into my hands. God ordained family and home to have eternal value as the place our children are shaped in the transcendent image of God, through our homes. This is our most lasting legacy. Even as Jesus served us through His sacrificial life, so we model his love through our sacrificial life.”
― Sally Clarkson, Awaking Wonder: Opening Your Child's Heart to the Beauty of Learning

“If children could grow up in innocence and safety, without the threat of sexual indoctrination and values-shaping dogma from secular public opinion in their classrooms.”
― Sally Clarkson, Awaking Wonder: Opening Your Child's Heart to the Beauty of Learning

“Conformity spawns conformity.”
― Sally Clarkson, Awaking Wonder: Opening Your Child's Heart to the Beauty of Learning

“Our student collects ideas, philosophy, facts, and stories. These synthesize and become foundations of their own mental library of the world.”
― Sally Clarkson, Awaking Wonder: Opening Your Child's Heart to the Beauty of Learning

“education is about relationship, about being worthy of the hope of our children. Taking seriously the stewardship of their trust as we guide them should be an underlying motivation of our hearts as we commit to influencing them. We are passing on a life, not just information.”
― Sally Clarkson, Awaking Wonder: Opening Your Child's Heart to the Beauty of Learning

“work of seeking to be a mentor to your children, seeking to pass on a spiritual formation that creates a live faith, giving the training required to develop godly character, and creating a love for learning is absolutely one of the most profound works of our whole society and world.”
― Sally Clarkson, Awaking Wonder: Opening Your Child's Heart to the Beauty of Learning

“When individuals are unconditionally accepted and set free to live into their own abilities, skills, and passions, they are more likely to be motivated to contribute from their own natural resources.”
― Sally Clarkson, Awaking Wonder: Opening Your Child's Heart to the Beauty of Learning

“A child fashioned by a wonder-filled life will cultivate inner strength, a confidence in his own ability to think, evaluate, and know. But those who influence children must fight to protect time for the imagination to have space to work, to have time to engage.”
― Sally Clarkson, Awaking Wonder: Opening Your Child's Heart to the Beauty of Learning