Archive: Education category
If curiosity killed the cat, I'd better start writing my will.
I ran across Dave Pollard's "An Unschooling Manifesto" the other day and finally got around to reading it.
Back in the 1840s, the Saints established the University of Nauvoo. Joseph Smith said that it was to "enable us to teach our children wisdom -- to instruct them in all knowledge, and learning, in the Arts, Sciences and Learned Professions. We hope to make this institution one of ...
My little brother was in the regional spelling bee this morning. Sitting there during the first round, I watched each kid get up to the mike and wait for their word to hit them. Some words were easy. Some, though, were hard, and most of the time ...
Stumbled across a quote by John Adams that really struck me hard:
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give ...
To offset today's other post, here's something that's less of a hot potato. :) As I get ready to graduate, I want to keep learning, to broaden my perspective across the board, and to deepen it at the points that most interest me. Now, if I just read ...
The other day I was dabbling around with an attempt to translate Moroni 10:3-5 into Latin, just for fun. This involved scouring the dictionary for words. And that leads us directly to the topic of this post: reading dictionaries is fun.
I've noticed that it's not just dictionaries, ...
I miss science. True, linguistics is a science of sorts, but I mean physics and chemistry and biology and math and all that. The hard sciences. Looking back, I think the last science class I took was Physical Science 100 my freshman year, almost six years ago. ...
In response to the discussion on Connor's blog about homeschooling, I wrote up this response. I recommend reading the other comments in the thread so you have a clearer idea of what I'm replying to. And I've learned that I could probably write about education for pages ...
Upon looking at the syllabus for my Introduction to Theatre class an hour ago, and noting with a small degree of horror that we'd have to put on a fullscale production as our final, I decided to find another way to fulfill the Arts GE. After going through every ...
