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“Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not,
as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe,
an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory”
~Emily Post, American Etiquette Pioneer
A new study in the journal Psychological Science concluded [...]
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“Tyrants forbid citizens to do their duty as free men.
Free government permits them to do it.
Liberal education enables them to do it.”
Stringfellow Barr, Co-founder of St. John’s College Great Books program, 1941
In Andrew’s post on Jacob Klein, he briefly quotes Scott Buchanan’s essay [...]
“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage… Unless we can make [...]
“Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world” ~Maria Montessori
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” ~Victor Hugo
I have recently been powerfully affected by two musical experiences.
The first is a joy. Her name [...]
“No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child.” ~Maria Montessori
I recently returned from my first North American Montessori Teachers Association Meeting, held in Seattle, WA. What I learned there absolutely reaffirmed that education is the best way, certainly the best voluntary way, to support liberty. [...]
“If the idea of the universe is presented to the child in the right way, it will do more for him than just arouse his interest, for it will create in him admiration and wonder, a feeling loftier than any interest and more satisfying.” ~Maria Montessori
“We are perishing for want of wonder, not for [...]
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. ~Aristotle
The ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts hope in everything…adopts any religion, and the prejudices and the habits of its countrymen, incarnating all in itself. That is the child! ~Maria Montessori
Nature says copy your parents…whatever your interests are, the child gets tremendously interested in them [...]
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