Learning, Knowledge, Exploration
“The Essence of Mankind”


Learning is an Exploration and a Natural Process.
It is the Journey to the Known and yet Unknown.
The Quest for Knowledge fulfills the Need of the Human Mind and Soul.
In a safe, healthy, and stimulating environment
children can unfold their natural inclination for learning and discovery.
 Each child has its own unique and individual path.
With every Child, the Miracle and Wonders of Nature unfold.
(Tina Burgess, Academy of Exploration International)

“the power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already;
and that just as the eye was unable to turn from darkness to light
 without the whole body,
so too the instrument of knowledge
can only by the movement of the whole soul
be turned from the world of becoming
into that of being
and learn by degrees to endure the sight of being...”
(Plato, The Allegory of the Cave)


“Thus the first capacity of human intellect
is that the mind is fitted to receive the impressions made on it;
either through the senses by outward objects;
 or by its own operations when it reflects on them.
This is the first step a man makes towards the discovery of anything...”
(John Locke, On Ideas as the Materials of All Our Knowledge)


“An animal capable of receiving knowledge would be a property of man”
(Aristotle, Topics)


“One stately house shall be the music house,
Others for other arts - learning, the sciences, shall all be here,
None shall be slighted, none but shall here be honor’d, help’d, exampled.
(Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass)


“Learning without thought is labor lost,
thought without learning is perilous”.
(Confucius, Analects)


Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays)