Never give up because life gets harder as you get older. After
preschool the road of life keeps getting bumpier and bumpier and
bumpier.  -- Angela Martin, age 11
     Never blow in a cat's ear because if you do, usually after three or
four times, they will bite your lips! And they don't let go for at
least a minute.  -- Lisa Coburn, age 9
     Don't think life is easy, because when you get older it is hard work.
I used to think life was easy, now I have to do the dishes every other day.
-- Nick Coleman, age 9
     Take risks. I mean, if you like this person and you don't know if they
like you, ask them out and see what happens. I liked this girl and I asked
her out. She said no and she hates me now, but I took that risk.  -- Bruce
Wagner, age 13
     A realist is more correct about things in life than an optimist. But
the optimist seems to have more friends and much more fun.  -- Megan, age 14
     The beguiling ideas about science quoted here were gleaned from essays,
exams, and classroom discussions. Most were from 5th and 6th graders. They
illustrate Mark Twain's contention that the "most interesting information
comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop."
     Question: What is one horsepower?  Answer: One horsepower is the amount
of energy it takes to drag a horse 500 feet in one second.
     You can listen to thunder after lightening and tell how close you came
to getting hit. If you don't hear it you got hit, so never mind.
     Talc is found on rocks and on babies.
     The law of gravity says no fair jumping up without coming back down.
     When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with
atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with explosions.
     When people run around and around in circles we say they are crazy.
When planets do it we say they are orbiting.
     Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand.
     Someday we may discover how to make magnets that can point in any
direction.
     South America has cold summers and hot winters, but somehow they still
manage.
     Most books now say our sun is a star. But it still knows how to change
back into a sun in the daytime.