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“We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.” ~Quintilian Waterfalls of Wisdom is a daily publication of lovely thoughts and classic wisdom. Visit each day for wisdom, encouragement, Scripture, pleasing words, and lovely thoughts to ponder. In an increasingly gray world, take the time …
One of my main homeschool objectives in the elementary years is exposure. Sure, there are a few subjects that require mastery – math, grammar, Latin – but history, science, and geography are mostly exposure in our homeschool during the younger years. We used Story of the World for awhile as our main spine in Tapestry …
“How do you best move toward mastery? To put it simply, you practice diligently, but you practice primarily for the sake of the practice itself. Rather than being frustrated while on the plateau, you learn to appreciate and enjoy it just as much as you do the upward surges.” ~George Leonard – Mastery, The Keys to …
“Greed for gold is a curse. There is nothing to which it does not drive the minds of men.” ~Aeneas speaking of the Thracian king, The Aeneid by Virgil Waterfalls of Wisdom is a daily publication of lovely thoughts and classic wisdom. Visit each day for wisdom, encouragement, Scripture, pleasing words, and lovely thoughts to ponder. In an …
“Classical education is, above all, systematic – in direct contrast to the scattered, unorganized nature of so much secondary education. Rigorous, systematic study has two purposes. Rigorous study develops virtue in the student: the ability to act in accordance to what one knows to be right. Virtuous men or women can force themselves to do …
It’s back! The Homeschool Attendance Record for 2021-2022 is here! I can tell that homeschool moms are starting to mentally switch over to next year due to the many emails that are trickling in regarding the attendance record. We just finished up our school year on Friday, so my thoughts are starting to roll for …
Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro’ the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air Gave proof thro’ the night that …
Yesterday, I finished teaching my 11th year of homeschool! It always feels so good to wrap up that last day of school. My children think they’re the happiest that school is over for the year, but we all know that no one is ever happier than the homeschool mama. 😉 I enjoy teaching my children …
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We did not pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was …
“Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books – even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.” ~William Gladstone, British statesman and scholar; prime minister four times (1809-1898) Waterfalls of Wisdom is a daily publication of lovely thoughts …
“Just as the family is the only secure basis of the state, so is it the only safe basis of true education. If the mother will consider the many difficulties in the way of successful teaching in a large school and will then set against these in the balance the positive and unquestionable advantages of …
