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    "There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
    James T. Adams

    Family, books, food, organic farming, classical home education, books, gardening, journeys, music, books, thoughts, movies, and books.

    Davy is in third grade, Daniel in fourth grade, and Laura in sixth grade

    Email: farmschool at hmsinet dot com
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  • Notable Quotables

    "The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations grow old and die out; and, after an era of darkness, new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again, and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men’s hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead."
    Clarence Day

    "Anyone who has a library and a garden wants for nothing."
    Cicero

    "Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."
    Sir Francis Bacon, "Essays"

    "The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning."
    Gilbert Highet, "The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning"

    "Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment."
    Walter Wriston

    "I'd like to give you a piece of my mind."
    "Oh, I couldn't take the last piece."
    Ginger Rogers to Frances Mercer in "Vivacious Lady" (1938)

    "No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."
    Booker T. Washington

    "Please accept my resignation. I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member."
    Attributed to Groucho Marx in "The Groucho Letters" by Arthur Sheekman

    "If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me."
    Alice Roosevelt Longworth

    "If we bring a little joy into your humdrum lives, we feel all our hard work ain't been in vain for nothin'."
    Jean Hagen as "Lina Lamont" in "Singin' in the Rain" (1952)

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Trick or treat

Posted on October 26, 2005 by Becky

Trick: still no progress on the computer front. Though I did learn that Apple gives homeschoolers discounts (on iPods too): www.apple.com/education/k12/homeschool.Treat: Tom and I are off to Regina, Saskatchewan (seven hours away…) this weekend for an organic farming symposium. I’m a bit put off by the thought of the three-hour soil fertility seminar [...]

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No news…

Posted on October 18, 2005 by Becky

isn’t necessarily good news on the computer front. Haven’t heard from the Apple repair guys about the dead laptop yet and just may have to phone them in the next day or two (yes, the withdrawal pangs are awful, though I was distracted from them on Sunday by my bout of the 24-hour stomach [...]

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How to bring Thanksgiving dinner with a bunch of public school teachers to a screeching halt with Pyramus and Frisbee

Posted on October 11, 2005 by Becky

At dinner on Sunday, Tom’s brother asked our youngest (not quite 5) if he knew any good stories. So excited he almost fell off his chair, Davy announced loudly, “Yes! Pyramus and Frisbee and the wall. And Puck is very funny, too.” He then proceeded to tell everyone the story of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” [...]

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Denim Jumper

Posted on October 6, 2005 by Becky

Thanks to Poppins, we now have Denim Jumper, www.thedenimjumper.com . Thanks, Poppins!

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Click

Posted on October 6, 2005 by Becky

The most amazing thing happened last week, on Tuesday at the library while I was checking my email (and mourning my poor computer, which as of today has finally made it to the Apple doctor, though I don’t think the news will be good, or cheap). I had told [...]

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