Another quote I collected from convention, this one referred to by Dr. Perrin in his talk on Latin. It fits beautifully with Wednesdays with Words and the idea Cindy originally began the linkup with … loving words and the fascinating ways they can be put together. I’m not saying loving words makes one a poet…
As you are all certainly aware, I was at the Cincinnati Great Homeschool Convention over the weekend. It was so good and my mind is still a bit full from the words I heard. I could certainly fill up this post with al kinds of words and quotes, but one of my favorites was a…
I think some (most, all?) of you are aware that poetry isn’t my strong suit. I want to know it better, understand it better, love it better … but I struggle. However, a book of poems as we start out for National Poetry Month seems appropriate (even if the poet is Canadian). One of my…
We sang “O Worship the King” during Circle Time the other day and I realized that it was what was reverberating in my mind this week, particularly the end of the fourth verse: Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail, in you do we trust, nor find you to fail. Your mercies, how tender,…
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…
Two that go together from Karen Glass in Consider This. “The proper nourishment for a living mind — the only thing which will allow the mind to reach its full potential is a diet of ideas … appetizing and varied …” pg 69 “Everything that a person learns becomes a part of himself, and as…
I have been reading Alan Jacobs’ excellent book, The Narnian, off and on for a year now. Actually, more off than on which is why I haven’t finished it. Don’t let that deter you, though, because it is really very good and very readable. Friday night, I had two and a half hours at basketball…
Karen Glass gets down to brass tacks in her chapter Choose You This Day, and the tacks fall right into place with what I considered about *revel* in February: Charlotte Mason’s conception of willing, or choosing, requires an object outside of self. No effort of choice is necessary to serve self–this we do naturally, and…
Karen Glass, in Consider This, traces the idea of literature – of grammar – in the Classical Tradition from the ancient Greeks through the Victorian age. Originally, the idea of literature had meant the necessity of reading in the Classical Languages in Latin and Greek. She shows how the idea of grammar evolved and changed…
Last week I shared a Charlotte Mason quote from For the Children’s Sake. Today, I’d like to share Charlotte Mason directly from A Philosophy of Education. In the second chapter, she deals quite extensively with the concept of ideas. She argues that ideas are what people latch onto and how they connect with other people…