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

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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.

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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.

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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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Holly Denman
Founding Director
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h.denman@chpcs.org

Welcome to Cascade Heights. It is my honor and privilege to serve your family this year.  I am a native Oregonian, raised on the University of Oregon campus.  Unlike some school founders and administrators, I took a rather circuitous route to Cascade Heights.  Following my graduation in Developmental Psychology from the College of Charleston South Carolina, I entered law school, planning to practice real estate and probate law in South Carolina.  A turn of events found me back in Oregon working for U.S. Bank, getting married and for the next 25 years, raising our four children.  Kiri, our oldest is 27, graduated from USC and  works for Oregon Emergency Management. She lives in Salem with her family.  Carmen is 27, a graduate of OSU and goes by the name of Dr. Denman at the London Hospital for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.  Our son Raphael serves the U.S. Army and lives with his family outside of Ft. Lewis, WA..   And Mariah is a  Senior at Central Catholic, fluent in French and Spanish, and head of the Consstitutional Debate team. I am currently and slowly working on my PhD in Educational Administration at Portland State with lots of on the job training. I should finish about the time of my retirement!

In the early 90s we became very involved in education reform in Oregon and finally in 1999 the charter school bill was signed into law.   I was active in the design of one of our state's first charter schools.  In 2001, I became a cancer patient and three years after that began the journey to the founding of Cascade Heights.   Some of our founding families are still with us today; Lee Hansen, Gina Hansen, Shonna Schroedl, Sheila Greer and I spent many, many hours around a kitchen table and at Shari's restaurant talking about our school.   We changed the name four times, received our grant money from the state of Oregon, then our charter from North Clackamas School District.  That first year we were required to sign a lease for property by July 15th, 2006.  We finally signed our lease on July 14th at our first location 13515 SE Rusk Rd. in Milwaukie.  in 2011 we moved to our current school on 92nd Ave.

I cannot think of anything I would rather be doing at this point in my life and I look forward to a wonderful year.   Thank you, thank you, ever thanks to all the wonderful people who make up our community!

Holly Denman

Founding Director

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