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		<title>Subtract To Add&#8211;the Preamble</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 05:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A critical question for teaching children (or anyone) is how to simultaneously 1) keep teaching grounded in the child&#8217;s own experience and 2) move the child as far as possible, not letting immediate experience be the limit on how far he can go in his knowledge. A brief comment on each of these conditions: The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsofahome.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3711186&amp;post=260&amp;subd=thoughtsofahome&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Education of Thomas Jefferson</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 04:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR5EhQ2ijaQ&#38;feature=related This is part 1 of a 3-part (24 min total) lecture describing some facets of the education of Jefferson.  It sets a great benchmark for classical education. Not merely what to know, but the way the knowledge sought should function in life. Very good. If one strove for that vision not only with the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsofahome.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3711186&amp;post=253&amp;subd=thoughtsofahome&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>False Teeth&#8211;the secret key to the TRUE George Washington</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having recently read 10 Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child by Anthony Esolen, and having read a good portion of &#8220;Hero Tales of American History&#8221; by some guy and Teddy Roosevelt (including the sections on George Washington&#8211;read it here) I was attuned to notice the following in our paper. There is an exhibit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsofahome.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3711186&amp;post=245&amp;subd=thoughtsofahome&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Tube or Not To Tube</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I watched a cartoon version of the three little pigs on youtube this evening, I reflected on the important question of children and TV.  My current stab at the question is the following.  The world is real, and TV is &#8220;real&#8221; only insofar as in some way it points you to the world or heightens your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsofahome.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3711186&amp;post=239&amp;subd=thoughtsofahome&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Testing Boundaries</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have heard about little kids begin to &#8220;Test Boundaries&#8221; and it often seems to me to be assumed this is a result of sinful tendencies towards disobedience.  But there is another side to the story, it seems to me, that I recently thought of as I watched a little kid doing something that his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsofahome.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3711186&amp;post=235&amp;subd=thoughtsofahome&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Burdensome Constraint of Our Old Enemy: Intellect</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More insight from Helen Keller (She was blind and deaf from 19 months of age). It is difficult to imagine a more decisive refutation of those who think &#8220;intellect&#8221; and &#8220;reason&#8221; are constrictive and narrow, and that by their growth one is forced into a flat, barren, colorless, cold, robotic world than the personal experience of Helen [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsofahome.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3711186&amp;post=223&amp;subd=thoughtsofahome&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing versus Seeing</title>
		<link>http://thoughtsofahome.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/seeing-and-seeing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The poets have taught us how full of wonders is the night; and the night of blindness has its wonders, too. The only lightless dark is the night of ignorance and insensibility. We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsofahome.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3711186&amp;post=218&amp;subd=thoughtsofahome&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Knowledge Parable</title>
		<link>http://thoughtsofahome.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/knowledge-parable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was once a little girl who loved learning about colors. She learned that red and yellow made orange, blue and red made purple, and the result of combining these combinations, etc. She also learned the perfect combinations to represent pink-edged sunsetted clouds and sparkling afternoon streams. Artists would even consult her for advice. But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsofahome.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3711186&amp;post=215&amp;subd=thoughtsofahome&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Maturing Relationship With Wisdom</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Proverbs Chap 2: 1My son, if you will receive my words And treasure my commandments within you, 2Make your ear attentive to wisdom, Incline your heart to understanding; 3For if you cry for discernment, Lift your voice for understanding; 4If you seek her as silver And search for her as for hidden treasures; 5Then you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsofahome.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3711186&amp;post=205&amp;subd=thoughtsofahome&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is a big deal?</title>
		<link>http://thoughtsofahome.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/what-is-a-big-deal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The beginning of my junior year in college featured a fun little freshman that my roommates and I made fun of/tried to bringunder our wing.  We brought him to church and incorporated him in a Bible study, and he would often come to our room seemingly as a sort of refuge.  After a few months, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtsofahome.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3711186&amp;post=190&amp;subd=thoughtsofahome&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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