Archive for August, 2006
« Previous EntriesTruth Through Metaphors
Friday, August 18th, 2006This morning I’ve been listening to the CD’s in The Lost Tools of Writing by Andrew Kern of Circe. Something he said there clarified in my mind the agrarian vs industrial models I’ve mentioned before.
God designed us to think metaphorically. This is a very important thing. [There is an ]Analogy between the material, physical realm we [...]
Ideas Have Consequences-again
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006I don’t know how much sense this will make outside the context of the book, but I liked this:
It has been well said that the chief trouble with the contemporary generation is that it has not read the minutes of the last meeting.
Articles Related to Education
Monday, August 14th, 2006Notice the new links I’ve added to articles related to education by David Crabtree. David is one of the tutors at Gutenberg College where my third son will be returning as a second-year student next month.
Ideas Have Consequences
Monday, August 14th, 2006I’ve enjoyed re-reading a couple of books this summer. One is Ideas Have Consequences by Richard Weaver. At the time I read it about four years ago, I thought it was so good that I bought a copy for each of my oldest two boys. There are so many good thoughts in it, it’s hard [...]
The End of an Era
Wednesday, August 9th, 2006Well, we’ve come to another milestone in life. Six years ago my oldest son went off to college in Idaho– two years later moving on to Rolla, MO. It still felt like he lived at home since he was home for holidays and summers, and many of his belongings still were here. He had a [...]
Education and the Industrial Model
Monday, August 7th, 2006I’ve been reading The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul (he’s taken a back seat to books I’m reading in preparation for school right now). There were some connections I made between that book and things said at the CiRCE conference. Although I didn’t want to give away the conference with people like Cindy doing such [...]
Book Disclaimer and Circe Conference
Monday, August 7th, 2006I ought to say that my book recommendations do not mean that I recommend them for all people and all ages. Some of the language in Jayber Crow is earthy. If I owned my copy and wanted to let my kids read it, I’d probably go through and use a marker on a half-dozen [...]
Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
Thursday, August 3rd, 2006Jayber Crow and Wendell Berry were mentioned frequently at the Circe conference. I checked it out from our local library and wanted to give a quote here:
I didn’t come clean about anything, really. What I wanted were courses in book-reading, and I wasn’t particular which. Once I got over there in the actual presence of [...]
Trip-May 2005
Thursday, August 3rd, 2006These are links to the webpages of photos of our trip last May 2005.
Niagara Falls I
Niagara Falls II
Fort Ticonderoga, New York
Saratoga National Battlefield, New York
Boston, Massachusetts I
Boston, Massachusetts II
Boston, Massachusetts III
Boston and Quincy, Massachusetts
Rhode Island I
Rhode Island II
Point Judith, Rhode Island
Gilbert Stuart Birthplace, Rhode Island
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Antietam, Maryland
School Planning for the Year
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006Most of my school planning each summer goes towards our history studies which I try to create into an integrated humanities course. So we do writing, history, philosophy, and literature. Sometimes the literature is quite different–it is hard to integrate because there’s little literature for the large part of early history and much literature for [...]
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