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toc = = = Welcome to Ancora Imparo ("I Am Still Learning") =



Our Purpose

 * To be a life-long learner, recognizing that there is so much we don't know
 * To be unafraid to try new things to improve the quality of our teaching
 * To recognize the personhood of our students and to treat them as co-learners
 * To bring all of our teaching under the direction and guidance of the Holy Spirit
 * To instill the sense of wonder, not only in our students, but also ourselves

Our Inspiration

 * Michelangelo who, at the age of 87, wrote, "Ancora Imparo" ("I am still learning") to express his imaginative and inquisitive nature.
 * Paul VI, who said, "[C]ontemporary man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, or, if he listens to teachers, he does so because they are witnesses."
 * Charlotte Mason, a 19th century English educator and pioneer of the homeschooling movement, who said, "The essence of Christianity is Loyalty to a Person--Christ, our King....The very essence of Christianity is personal loyalty, passionate loyalty to our adorable Chief....Let us save Christianity for our children by bringing them into allegiance to Christ the King....To bring the human race, family by family, child by child, out of the savage and inhuman desolation where He is not, into the light and warmth and comfort of the presence of God, is no doubt the chief thing we have to do in the world..."

Favorite Quote of the Age
** Teachers will tell you that the laziest boy in the class is the one who works hardest in the end. They mean this. If you give two boys, say, a proposition in geometry to do, the one who is prepared to take trouble will try to understand it. The lazy boy will try to learn it by heart because, for the moment, that needs less effort. But six months later, when they are preparing for an exam, that lazy boy is doing hours and hours of miserable drudgery over things the other boy understands, and positively enjoys, in a few minutes. Laziness means more work in the long run. Or look at it this way. In a battle, or in mountain climbing, there is often one thing which it takes a lot of pluck to do; but it is also, in the long run, the safest thing to do. If you flunk it, you will find yourself, hours later, in far worse danger. The cowardly thing is also the most dangerous thing. ---C.S. Lewis, // Mere Christianity //

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