There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

Frederick Douglass

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

Rose Kennedy

I am still learning.

Michelangelo

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.

Andy Warhol

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Plato

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Plato

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Plato

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Plato

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Confucius

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Sydney J. Harris

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Carl Rogers

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Robert M. Hutchins

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

George Santayana

Responsibility educates.

Wendell Phillips

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Abigail Adams

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Aeschylus

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

Malcolm Forbes

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

B. F. Skinner

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

George Washington Carver

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

John Dewey

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

Clifford Stoll

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

Ernest Dimnet

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

Anatole France

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Dear Falcon Families;

We are happy you have chosen to join us at Cascade Heights, whether it is for the first or the sixth year. Your child is entering an advanced placement educational environment that is secure and challenging; a place where children grow socially, physically, emotionally and intellectually. At Cascade Heights you are part of a new educational era transforming America's schools today.

To you we make three promises:

First, to remember that YOU are the primary educators of your children; Second: To examine life with intellectual rigor; Third: To always do so with an ethical goal.

Socrates once said: “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Honoring this 2400 year-old truth means that Cascade students learn to ask and answer challenging question. Like Socrates, we believe asking the right kind of question sets us on the path to understanding ourselves and our world. Examining life with academic rigor opens up the natural, cultural, and moral world in which we live. Thus we learn what makes life worth living.

Goethe said, “If you treat a man as he is, he will remain as he is; if you treat a man as he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.” Goethe's word has taught us that our examinations at Cascade Heights must be guided by a view of our moral potential. Our core values identify some of the character traits that Cascade Heights practices. Thus we learn to live a life worth living.

Living up to these ideals is a continual process of approximation and not a guarantee for certain success. For us, the education of our students presents several worthwhile challenges: We want to do justice to Socrates' and Goethe's words, to our subject matter, to our students' intellectual and moral potential, and to your trust in us. We want to teach as if Socrates were in the room; we want to teach so our students go home and have something truly interesting to talk about; we want to provide an education that we would have liked to have received ourselves. We see teaching and learning as crafts that improve through continual practice. In order to become better at our work, we welcome your feedback. Please contact us if you have questions or concerns.

It is a privilege to serve your family,
Holly Denman
Founding Director

Cascade Heights Public Charter School • 15301 SE 92nd Avenue • Clackamas, OR 97015-9648 • (503) 653-3996

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