![]() ![]() Which brings me to today’s book for our Library Project. And its corollary, observing the ways that smart people teach other smart people. So there’s another analytical tool for you: Observing the different ways smart people learn. Now, some dead people are smarter than others, just like living people. It’s worth noticing, when you are in mid-curriculum-flippage (made worse by all that’s out here on the internet, a big place, as I’ve mentioned), who the smart people are and how they get educated - especially once we realize that no one actually knows how children learn. Which is another way of saying that the dead have voted on them and found them worthy. ![]() That is why you choose good books for your children - living books, books that have stood the test of time. That tool is tradition - the democracy of the dead, as Chesterton calls it, in a book that I need to put in the Library Project - Orthodoxy. Still… I think I will! In the spirit of talking it over at the kitchen table… You will find every possible approach to every possible issue you might have. ![]() Right about now I have the sense that many of my dear readers are possibly flipping out ever so slightly about a) homeschooling or b) not homeschooling and thus c) putting together good curriculum and/or d) warding off bad curriculum. We will probably celebrate tomorrow, as we are just funny that way and don’t plan our anniversary very well. It’s also our little grandson Francis’ birthday, and Sukie’s nameday, so it’s a good one. ![]()
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