By Edgar Allan Poe
The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be [...]
I have long believed and taught that the beginning of any great education is falling deeply in love with learning.
The other side of this same coin is that great teaching – whether in public, private or home school - is a matter of truly inspiring students to love what [...]
The following is an excerpt from Leadership Education: The Phases of Learning
by Oliver and Rachel DeMille
“… a mentor insisted that the most important lessons of Western Civilization were to be found in its stories, literature, poetry and art. At first Oliver resisted, even to such an important mentor, [...]
by Heather Burton
[Note from Rachel: This stream-of-consciousness brilliance from my dear friend Heather was too good to pass up. With her permission, I've adapted a simple email message to her friends for us to enjoy.]
I’m up late working, and I’m tempted by the fact that I’m still signed in to my Yahoo account where I get all my TJEDinAlberta mail, so I’m giving in.
I’d like to tell a story about bringing books and children together:
Several times over the 15-20 [...]
Age: (Commonly) 7, 8 or 9ish to 12-13ish—boys often just a little later on both ends.
The emphasis here is on Love above Learning. This distinction is only necessary because so many of us have a conveyor belt hangover, and we tend toward duplicating our own experiences with conveyor [...]
Allan Bloom wrote in The Closing of the American Mind that:
“People sup together, play together, travel together, but they do not think together. Hardly any homes have any intellectual life whatsoever, let alone one that informs the vital interests of life. Educational TV marks the high tide for family [...]
Core Phase is that magical time of nurture and growth, almost like a cocoon.
The environment is perfect for defining what the individual will become. Later, in other phases, exposure to the challenging circumstances and ideas help the individual grow strong; in Core Phase, such influences can distort and hinder [...]
The secret of any great education is love of learning. Note that the phrase here is love of “learning,” not love of “schooling,” or love of “education.” Learning should be the focus of schools and education, but this is not always the case. Many schools and educational institutions have [...]
America is in the midst of a major clash of two cultures. Most of the rich world, and the developing world as well, are experiencing the same challenge.
This contest is seldom cooperative, often violent, and increasingly heated. It has the passion of the age-old class debate between the rich [...]
