As you likely know, we use AmblesideOnline for our homechool curriculum. One knock AO gets is that it occasionally uses old, sometimes racially insensitive (at best) or downright racist (at worst) books. There are books to offend many groups – Roman Catholics have issue with Trial and Triumph and Westward Ho!; This Country of Ours…
I read Cindy Rollins’ new book, Mere Motherhood: Morning Times, Nursery Rhymes, & My Journey Toward Sanctification on Sunday and wrote my review on Monday. I’m still thinking about the Zucchini and Larkspur quote. It may have stood out for me because when I was nine, my favorite book was The Password to Larkspur Lane – a…
Did you know I was a Social Studies Education major? I love History, but at The Ohio State University, you can’t major in History Education, it must be ‘Social Studies’ with History and two other concentration areas (Geography and Economics were mine. I think that’s part of why I fell in love with The Well-Trained…
You know how sometimes when you start considering an ideas, it starts to show up in all sorts of places. What is the place of generalization as we educate our children in the 21st Century? What is the place of specialization? So many educators – of the homeschool and school variety – are enamored by…
I have, perhaps, gushed too much about Sarah Mackenzie’s book Teaching from Rest. I’ve quoted it a number of times: twice before on Wednesdays with Words (To Those Ends, Surrender … Take On), just this past Monday on my Daybook, and you can’t forget Instagram where I snapped a pic of the page I was on…
On Saturday, I published a post about how I see education as a Giant Jigsaw Puzzle. I forgot that just last week, I had read a quote that went perfectly with my post. I found it again Monday night at my CM group meeting where we’re studying using Brandy Vencel’s Start Here as our guide. Brandy…
For each of the last two Christmases, my parents gave a 1000-piece puzzle to the family members of my generation. There are 10 of us: 5 siblings and our spouses. While we tend to the competetive (in only the very best way), we can also cooperate at a challenging task. We accomplished the puzzles in…
A year ago, I ran into a quote from John Ruskin in Consider This by Karen Glass. I wrote it in my commonplace book. Today, when I started Awakening Wonder by Stephen Turley, I found the quote again and decided to share it with you. I love the alternating not merely. Education is not merely…
Last week, the quote I offered was from an audio book, this week I’m sharing one from a podcast. Do you listen to any podcasts? This is a relatively new medium for me. I’m not very auditory, I mean you saw my sermon notebook where I come as close as I can to transcribing sermons…
We’ve been enjoying a “consecutive reading” of Romans during morning worship and when this passage was read, I couldn’t stop hearing the italicized passage. I know this – you know this – but Paul surrounds it with such a logical building that it took on new significance and took my breath away. But if you…