Education
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Sunday, May 6th, 2007Deanna at Stories Happen tagged me for this meme. Juanita offered to tag anyone wanting to be tagged–so I’ll consider this to be in response to her tag also. Only problem with this is that what is interesting to me may not be very interesting to anyone else. However, I’ll take my cue [...]
Wisdom and Eloquence
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007Juanita wrote a review of this book which I read a few months ago–maybe even close to a year ago. About the only helpful thing I said about the book at the time was that I thought it would be the first book I would recommend for those wanting to learn about classical ed. I [...]
What do we value?
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007Cindy posted a link to this article almost as an aside because so many of her internet friends already knew about it. I didn’t and didn’t read it right away until I saw it linked also by the DHM. You really don’t want to miss this article. It’s lengthy, so fix a cup of [...]
Back from Greece
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007We arrived home last night at about 6:45 pm. We left Athens at 6:11 AM and accounting for the 8 hour time difference, it took about 20.5 hours to get home. I can only sleep in little catnaps while flying, so I was exhausted. I got a good night’s sleep however and think that the [...]
Why I Don’t Have Time to Write Blog Posts
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007Honestly these are easy ones….compared to what I’d like to write about. The reason I really don’t have time to do much blogging is that my oldest two boys (and daughter-in-law) were home for at least part of spring break last week. Since one is at Penn State and the other is at Purdue and [...]
Instruction Manuals
Monday, March 19th, 2007Several things have come to mind to blog about in the last few days, but I really just don’t have the time to put into them at the moment. However, that won’t stop me from blogging about more mindless things–or at least things that are so obvious that no commentary from me is necessary.
My dad [...]
Education
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007Recently (was it only yesterday?), the DHM at The Common Room linked to an article in which the author was opposed to a statement made by Steve Jobs attacking teachers unions. Jobs made the reasonable claim that no business could get someone to run it if they were unable to fire bad employees. Arguments have [...]
Rejecting a Rejection Letter
Thursday, February 1st, 2007When my two oldest sons were applying to graduate schools last fall, Ben sent me a link to this “rejection” letter. I was reminded it of it today as I was reading things in trying to help my fourth son Jed as he prepares for a competitive scholarship at LeTourneau University next week.
I ought to [...]
College education
Thursday, January 18th, 2007Others in my online homeschooling circles are writing about these three articles:
Intelligence in the Classroom
What’s Wrong with Vocational School
Aztecs vs. Greeks
All three of my sons who are in college have come face-to-face with the idea that they are just not as smart as some others with whom they go to school. They’ve been [...]
McCullough interview
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006Thanks to Carol and her post Write. Think. Learn (title borrowed from Mentalmultivitamin), I listened to an interview with David McCullough this morning. As Carol wrote, he emphasized how important he believes writing to be to the education process. He believes that the Founding Fathers were able to articulate such important truths not only because [...]
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