Education
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Friday, April 18th, 2008I was looking on the local paper’s Web site and ran across an article written by Mona Charon about why the public schools are failing to teach ethics or character. There were three replies, one of which was the obligatory, “Oh, if only parents were doing their job….” which seems is the stock answer [...]
Education and Excuses
Monday, January 21st, 2008The Deputy Headmistress has posted a few excerpts and few comments of her own on the education system here in America. I’ve been wanting to write on a couple of things that I recently heard here in our area of Springfield, Missouri. Three weeks or so ago, the evening news (which I rarely [...]
Amateur
Sunday, November 25th, 2007I’m glad I wrote that I was only “in” the first chapter in my previous post. Further on in the chapter:
This active use of time is of course for pleasure; its impulse is love. Everybody used to know this when the words amateur and dilettante were taken in their original meanings of “lover” and “seeker [...]
Culture and Scholarship
Sunday, November 25th, 2007I know I have other books I’ve started to read, but none of them hit the spot this Sunday afternoon. So I started another, The Culture We Deserve, by Jacques Barzun whose 100th birthday is later this week.
I’m only in the first chapter, but I can tell I’m really going to like this book. [...]
American kids….
Thursday, November 1st, 2007This article in SFGate American kids, dumber than dirt
Warning: The next generation might just be the biggest pile of idiots in U.S. history
is very interesting. I know I originally read it because of a link in someone else’s blog (Common Room?), but I couldn’t find it this morning in order to give credit to [...]
Sam: Officially a Junior
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007Gutenberg College, where Sam is a student, requires the students, at the end of their sophomore year, to take comprehensive exams covering all that they have learned the first two years. At the beginning of the junior year, they hold a Junior Tea to honor those students for their accomplishment. At this event the [...]
Paintings
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007MMV has posted about the book 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die. Honestly, I hesitate to say anything that would give my judgment on art because I don’t trust that I have very good taste. Reading her post immediately reminded me of two paintings. One is The Skater which hangs in The [...]
College Advice
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007This article at Scriptorium Daily by John Mark Reynolds has lots of useful nuggets of advice for students leaving for college.
C.S. Lewis on Newspapers
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007People have been shocked at my opinion that I have found newspapers to be a waste of my time. I really don’t have much to waste! My main problem has been that as much as I would like to be informed of what’s going on in government, I really don’t have much faith that [...]
Hardly knowing where to begin….
Friday, June 8th, 2007Some have been discussing what they’ll be doing for the summer and so I thought I’d add my plans. I really do plan on making up a reading list to participate in SeasonalSounding’s Summer Reading Challenge, but at the moment, I’m not sure how to prioritize my reading and to-do list. I rarely get everything [...]
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