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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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    "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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New for dangerous girls and daring boys

New since the beginning of the month is The Dangerous and Daring Blog for Boys and Girls – “inspired by The Dangerous Book for Boys and the upcoming The Daring Book for Girls” but “not connected in any way to the authors or publishers of those books”. Rather, the new blog is brought to you by The Llama Butchers, who I believe came to my attention through our mutual pal Melissa Wiley.

Labels/categories so far with corresponding posts include

Battles (1)
Build It (1)
Dangerous (10)
Daring (8)
History (4)
Hobby (1)
Outdoors (2)
Rocketry (2)
Science (1)
Stories (1)

Wowie! I believe I know a few children out on the open prairie who might have fun with those two rocketry posts.

Grand fun to bookmark and to add to the Bloglines subscription. Great good thanks to the LBs for the new blog, especially while there’s still plenty of summer left for unfettered, dangerous, and daring summer fun.

(I hope to post a fair report toward the end of the week, and do some general bloggy catching up. But tomorrow morning we’re off to the fairgrounds again for the day for the big volunteer clean-up.)

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