The McEldowney Family: Unassigned Territory, Canadian Bethel, Toronto, Niagara Falls 2009

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Unassigned Territory, Canadian Bethel, Toronto, Niagara Falls 2009

Hello Family & Friends,
Well, we have had an exciting June! We did unassigned territory in Northern Michigan for 3 1/2 days and placed 101 bible teach books!! It was really a great experience. Its been a few years since we have done unassigned, so we just soaked it all in. Everyone needs to do this if you get the chance. After that we traveled 7 hours to Brampton, Ontario where we stayed in a hotel recommended by the Branch. Upon checking in we were told that the mgmt. of the hotel were also taking a tour of Bethel the following day. They wanted to see what the fuss was all about, since so many people stay there to tour Bethel in Canada. So anyway, the tour went great, we ate with some friends of my Parents' who have been at Bethel for 26 years. They were so sweet. That evening we drove into the city, (Toronto) and walked around Chinatown & Little Italy. Then the next day we drove south towards Niagara Falls and spent the day there. The kids and Sean had never been there. So impressive and a good reminder of Jehovah's creativity and love of beauty in nature. Click on the link for pictures!! We are getting ready for our convention in a few weeks and then back to school in August.
Until Later, Danita

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My current favorite quotes about education and life

"What does education often do? It makes a
straight-cut ditch of a free meandering brook."
~Henry David Thoreau, Journal,
1850

"Learning can only happen when a child is interested. If he's not interested, it's like throwing marshmallows at his head and calling it eating."
- Barbara Lamping
"I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself, instead of sitting indoors at a little round table, while a sweet-voiced teacher suggests that he build a stone wall with his wooden blocks, or make a rainbow out of strips of coloured paper, or plant straw trees in bead flower-pots. Such teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of, before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experience."
-- Anne Sullivan (Helen Keller's teacher)