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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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Moving in a common rhythm

Posted on May 23, 2009 by Becky

“Don’t rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head. There’s no reason why education should be incompatible with craftsmanship.”
Andy Rooney in his 2000 commencement address at the University of Virginia
Part of the reason I haven’t blogged since May 7th is that we’ve been working with our hands — looking after [...]

Filed under: Blogging, Books, Country Life, Craftsmanship, Education, Ideas, Knowledge & Wisdom, Magazines & Journals, New Books, Onward & Upward, Raising Children | 8 Comments »

World Science Festival in New York, June 2009

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Becky

Just had an email with the schedule for next month’s World Science Festival in New York City, June 10-14.
Some of the events include:
“Navigating the Cosmos” with Lawrence Krauss and Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The Hudson Since Henry: A Natural and Unnatural History”
“Infinite Worlds” with Festival creator physicist Brian Greene, NPR science correspondent Robert Krulwich, philosopher Nick Bostrom, [...]

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Star party

Posted on May 4, 2009 by Becky

On Saturday night Tom, the kids, and I attended a stargazing party at our provincial park to help celebrate the International Year of Astronomy. It was our town’s “Galileo Moment”. While we live in a rural area and don’t have a local astronomy club, observatory, or planetarium in where we live — though we do [...]

Filed under: Astronomy, Books, Canadiana, Celebrations, Children's Books, Current Events, Education, Fun & Games, History, New Books, Onward & Upward, Outdoor Education, Podcasts | 1 Comment »

“I’ve got a song to sing, all over this land”

Posted on May 3, 2009 by Becky

Happy Birthday, Pete Seeger.
If you’re in New York City today, you can swing by Madison Square Garden and help celebrate his 90th birthday.
Pete Seeger has been presence in my life since childhood with his records, and I still recall one marvelous autumn day when we got to meet him and listen to him sing at [...]

Filed under: American history, Art & Culture, Books, Celebrations, Children's Books, Civics, Commemorations, Education, History, Knowledge & Wisdom, Movies, Music, Onward & Upward, Raising Children, World history | 4 Comments »

Call me piggish

Posted on May 3, 2009 by Becky

and cynical, but I was interested to watch as the public health and news gathering organizations seemed rather deflated at the end of this week as their best efforts to whip up panic — working very well (especially as far my eight-year-old is concerned) — seemed at odds with the fact that the swine flu [...]

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