I felt, as it explains in Proverbs, that “the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding” and “wisdom entereth into thine heart” (Proverbs 2:6,10). Participating schools give their students the opportunity to choose their own book to take home and keep from a list of 17 titles. As we walked down, my friend reminded me of the Ted Hughes poem about a house creaking in a ferocious gale, which begins: “This house has been far out at sea all night. Often my heart has been filled during early morning runs as I have gone over in my mind the words from “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” ( Ensign, November 1995, 102), “The Living Christ” ( Ensign, April 2000, 2–3), or some scripture or poem I was memorizing.

The memorized poem becomes like a precious stone that we always have in our pocket and which we can pick up whenever we have an idle (or an anxious) moment. After struggling in both roles, he learned to create meaningful learning experiences despite the constraints of conventional schooling–initially for himself and then for his students–based on understanding each student’s real interests and strengthening his or her intrinsic motivations.

A blue print for allowing them, encouraging them to think, work and grow into adults capable of critical thinking and a vision for a future different than ours. To mark this important annual event, we thought we’d take a look at some useful words related to learning. This grossly oversimplified understanding has created many complexities in our lives and taken away from us the very fundamentals of the joy of living. For our lives to become the music of hope for the world, our learning must be heart deep; it must reach our very core.

I was immediately drawn to the comparison to Warhol, but I found this book to be a wonderful love letter to the approach within the classroom, any classroom inviting, exploring, nurturing, and celebrating the creative act within. I admire Tony’s gumption, his refusal to follow conventional wisdom, his unflinching honesty about his own failures, and his unshakable belief that there’s a better world out there—and that he was destined to improve the work of teachers everywhere. Another time a daughter chose to recite Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 29”: “When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes / I all alone beweep my outcast state” (lines 1–2).

I began to feel greater personal affirmation from apostles and prophets and from the Lord for the family choices I had made over a lifetime. It expresses both halves of a single emotion: feeling disappointed, but at the same time moving away from the disappointment and leaving it ­behind. We are to learn spiritual truth by heart and then retain in remembrance what we have placed deep in our hearts.