randylynne

Wow. I never would have thought I would win a challenge in my first 10 days on TD. Fortunately, I have cathyallheart around here to help me figure out what I'm doing.

I'm wanting to do a kind of back-to-school thing, but I know a lot of us aren't really at that stage right now. At any rate, as an older student/homeschooling parent/librarian-type, I'm all about lifelong learning. So feel free to hit the books on this one, but lets think beyond the institution of "school" and really consider what it is to learn.

I'm going to have this go until Thursday August 4th (the last day of summer term) and I will post my decision on the 5th (before I get buried in developing lesson plans for fall).

randylynne

Cathy here tells me I'm being too vague. I'll work on coming up with a few examples in the next couple days, but here's a few quotes on learning to get you thinking:

I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. ~Winston Churchill

I am still learning. ~Michelangelo

Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. ~Ivan Illich

Be done with rote learning/ And its attendant vexations. ~Lao-Tzu

You learn more from getting your butt kicked than from getting it kissed. ~Tom Hanks (not really sure how this fits with my idea, but an awesome quote, no?)

Children have to be educated, but they also have to be left to educate themselves. ~Ernest Dimnet

Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Do not use compulsion, but rather let early education be a sort of amusement. ~Plato

In education the life of the mind proceeds gradually from scientific experiments to intellectual theories, to spiritual feeling, and then to God. ~Kahlil Gibran

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ~Mark Twain

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ~Malcolm Forbes

Anyway, just some thoughts. Hope this gets you thinking. I'll come up with a pic or two soon.

cathyallheart

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=146238

randylynne

Reading with Daddy: http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=146241

Chrissyjoy

This will have to get the brain cells working! A great challenge, I look forward to being hit by inspiration very soon!

hanging

This is a wonderful challenge. Let me see if I'd be able to come up with something fun!

randylynne

Here's another, more metaphorical one:

The World is my Classroom http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=146288

Qsilv

A big part of the joy of getting a new member in here is their coming up with a lovely new slant on things!

Amazing how many in my gallery can be twisted to fit... you're forcing me to *think*.

Oldies for now-- I don't think I need to explain 'em... YOU guys get to think. ;>

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=76153

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=131080

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=77886

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=82394

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=26680

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=29801

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=31887

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=32457

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=126396

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=133904

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=137207

_Akira_

Here's one. I didn't have time so it's a little sloppy.

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=146454

clorophilla

this is a beautiful challege! Hope to have a little time to join it soon, I have some ideas ;-)

hanging

Death Valley - thoughts of the gold rush
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=146642

GingerNinja

Here's one subject that I wish was taught at school:
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=146710

~Ginger

lesley_gene

Learning from maps!

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=146670

AFSOUTH

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=146420

It has taken many great minds living and learning together to reach Mach speeds!

hanging

My oldies following Q. (didn't think of that but surprisingly, some really fit in here, I think.)

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=110639 Dispersion + Cooperation = Life

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=110757 Let it go

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=115429 A million of possibilities in a baby

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=115522 gaining wisdom

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=120508 gain/lose as you age

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=131116 an old man said, "this is my tree"

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=133322 thinking of what technology can't do...

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=142082 back-to-back

marg

oh no.. just checked my oldies, and can only find one:
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=79814

..but I'll definitely try and steal some time this weekend to have a go at this great challenge

randylynne

I'm liking what I've seen so far, but it looks like a little more time might be good. My end date was pretty arbitrary, so let's go until the end of this weekend (Sunday night), and see what we can come up with. I've got another idea or two to play with myself. ;o)

Login

I could only find three in my oldies:

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=14279
Mum!

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=16736
'No good at skating, either.

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=108255
I can't make it work.

'Will make an effort to draw something for the challenge.

Gemini8

Not that good, but it was all I got.
Pencil
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=147051

Gemini8

Here's a better one.
Teacher's Pet
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=147054