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Always Learning

I am loving our creative writing experiment. Today I gave them this picture of some Honduran riot police (sorry--it didn't scan very well,) told them to write one excellent sentence about it, and we ended up with thre…
Choke on a Gnat, Swallow a Camel?

I just read an article that was interesting. It seems that Obama is planning a special address to school kids on Tuesday, which in these parts will be the first day of school. And a lot of parents are upset. I find …
Stem Cell Children--an Act of War

[a quote from James Dobson] Do you know what a stem cell is? A stem cell is a cell that in the very early stages of development is undifferentiated. In other words, it's not yet any kind of tissue, but it can go an…
Reading--the Lost Art

Okay, I am in shock. I just got a newsletter from the local public school system which contained several little news items. Among the articles about the new Literacy Stations (huh? And here I thought school was all ab…
Interesting Quote

Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so study without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci Is this true? If you are made to study things which…
TANSTAAFL

TANSTAAFL -- That means, There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. This is a pretty neat book that I'm reading with the kids right now. It has a very good explanation of inflation, and the part that has impressed…
The Emperor has No Clothes

I read this quote today and was reminded of the old story of the emperor having no clothes, but no one was brave enough to say so. If everyone agrees that he is wearing clothes, surely it must be so, right? Right? On…
Education vs. Work

The old general rule was that educated people did not perform manual labor. They managed to eat their bread, leaving the toil of producing it to the uneducated. This was not an insupportable evil to the working bees, so …
America's Failure

I was reading John Gatto's latest essay today, and he summed up so nicely what I think is wrong in America today. Maturity has by now been banished from nearly every aspect of our lives. Easy divorce laws have remov…
Another Quote

What you learn in childhood is carved on stone; when you learn in old age is carved on ice. from The Road From Home by David Kherdian