Last night the sixth graders staged the much-awaited Night of the Notables to resounding success. It was the culmination of a year's worth of research and preparation. Night of the Notables serves and nurtures the autonomous learner. Each student chooses his notable and works at his or her own pace and to his own depth, free to explore the direction he wants to take his research to and to pursue his own vision. He works within a chosen time frame supported by the school's community of teachers and parents. The NON project is additional work outside of the regular academic subjects so the children attend to it after class hours. Countless hours were devoted to streamlining their individual projects leading up to last night and everybody did themselves proud!
The evening started with all the Notables up on stage delivering a famous quote from their chosen Notable. After which, they descended on to their individual booths and delivered their spiels to clusters of roving private audiences.
Here are some of the famous quotes:
Stan Lee (in Amazing Spiderman): With great power comes great responsibility
Shigeru Miyamoto (creator of Nintendo): Video games are bad for you; that's what they said about rock and roll.
Indira Gandhi: I don't mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. if I die today, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.
Anne Frank: I still believe in spite of everything, that people are still truly good at heart.
Charles Darwin: An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is wiser than most men.
Andres Bonifacio: Aling pag-ibig pa ang hihigit kaya sa pagkadalisay at pagkadakila gaya ng pag-ibig sa tinubuang lupa.
My favorite is Anne Frank's saying. Which one is yours?
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