Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. Ashley Smith (via pink-sequins)

sparksflyandfireflies: Absorbed in her book, lukewarm tea in her cup Little girl, fears nothing but of growing up All she asks for is more time in a day More time for play, oh please, time, please stay Won’t you let her have her way?

A good teacher knows that the best way to help students learn is to allow them to find the truth by themselves. Students don’t learn by a mere transfer of knowledge, consumed through rote memorization and later regurgitated. True learning comes about through the discovery of truth, not through the imposition of an official truth. …