Harold B. Lee Library

Archive for the “Ideas” Category

  • Quote from Louis L’Amour
    Posted March 20, 2009 by Rachel Wadham

    Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.
    — Louis L’Amour

  • Need Help? Just Ask
    Posted June 12, 2008 by Rachel Wadham

    An Information Specialist has more than 9,736 information sources. Only one of them is Google.~ Mary Ellen Bates, Bates Information Services 
    If you need help finding and using one of those 9,736 information sources please contact the subject librarian, Rachel Wadham, or contact the staff at the social science/education reference desk.  We can help, so don’t [...]

  • Haul it away
    Posted October 3, 2007 by Rachel Wadham

    Education is about the only thing lying around loose in the world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away. — George Lorimer

  • Great New Teaching Resources from Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)
    Posted October 2, 2007 by Rachel Wadham

    Language Arts:
    Language Resource Centers is a gateway to 15 centers that support foreign language instruction. Led by nationally and internationally recognized language professionals, the centers create language-learning materials, offer professional development workshops, and conduct research. Some centers concentrate on specific language areas; others focus on foreign languages in general. (Department of Education)

    http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1966

    Children’s Literature: Digitized Print [...]

  • Nation’s Report Card Shows Record Gains
    Posted September 25, 2007 by Rachel Wadham

    On September 25, 2007 the Nation’s Report Card summary was issued that states ““These results are the latest addition to a growing amount of data that proves No Child Left Behind is working.”
    Take a critical look at thisNation’s Report Card , by clicking on the title to see the pdf file and then post a [...]

  • To Be Educated
    Posted September 19, 2007 by Rachel Wadham

    It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought — that is to be educated.

    — Edith Hamilton