Friday, June 13, 2008
Ruth Was Known For Excellence
"Now, my daughter, do not fear. I will do for you whatever you ask, for all my people in the city know that you are a woman of excellence" Ruth 3:11 NAS
Development and Historians
BLOWN AWAY!
I just attended two sessions of Camp Logos and I am blown away with technology and the information available at our fingertips. The world is changing and our beloved books are changing as well as the digital world digitizes these volumes. Logos is working on photographing the dead sea scrolls and digitizing them so that they are available to search and read. This is an incredible way to preserve these ancient resources; yet, I am a bit saddened. As books are scanned and created in to computer files, the real deal is left on the shelf to yellow. People no longer curl up with their thick comfy books, nope, instead they blow up the zoom and sit with their laptops to read. It makes studying way easier and faster, but I am a history lover. I will always like the old volumes with their yellowing pages, their feel in your hand. I will always want to see the dead sea scrolls myself with my own two eyes.... There is nothing like seeing the real thing.
Nevertheless Logos and the world of digital books is an incredible development, thankfully there will always be people like me to preserve those old things people leave on the shelf to gather cowwebs. Someone still finds them facinating.
I just attended two sessions of Camp Logos and I am blown away with technology and the information available at our fingertips. The world is changing and our beloved books are changing as well as the digital world digitizes these volumes. Logos is working on photographing the dead sea scrolls and digitizing them so that they are available to search and read. This is an incredible way to preserve these ancient resources; yet, I am a bit saddened. As books are scanned and created in to computer files, the real deal is left on the shelf to yellow. People no longer curl up with their thick comfy books, nope, instead they blow up the zoom and sit with their laptops to read. It makes studying way easier and faster, but I am a history lover. I will always like the old volumes with their yellowing pages, their feel in your hand. I will always want to see the dead sea scrolls myself with my own two eyes.... There is nothing like seeing the real thing.
Nevertheless Logos and the world of digital books is an incredible development, thankfully there will always be people like me to preserve those old things people leave on the shelf to gather cowwebs. Someone still finds them facinating.
Good Read: George Washington - Paul Johnson
"George Washington is the best-documented figure in the entire eighteenth century.But he remains remote and mysterious" writes author Paul Johnson as he sets the stage before exploring the world of this great man. Historian Paul Johnson is a British historian who has written "A History of the American People" a thick volume covering early America to the present. I recently picked up his new title on George Washington and throughly enjoyed it. Finally a historian who is looking at the facts and brings out the qualities of this man with balance not over sentimentalizing while not bashing his character. I appreciated his handle on the topic.
Concerning slavery and Washington's opinion on the topic, Mr. Johnson had some interesting sources and revelations. George Washington disliked the practice and hoped to see it slowly recede from the American scene. In his will he decreed his slaves be given freedom once his wife passed away and made it clear they were not to be sold or transported out of Virginia. Apparently in those days this was a remarkable thing for a Virginian to decree.
He had a remarkable interest in land and the development of navigation and unity within it. He owned plenty and constantly explored new ways to utilize it. Mount Vernon housed several experiments on agriculture and the like as he possessed great curiosity.
These were a few topics broached in the biography. The book is a through yet simple and short book by a trustworthy historian. I recommend it!
Johnson, Paul. George Washington:The Founding Father. HarperCollins Publishers, New York 2005.
Concerning slavery and Washington's opinion on the topic, Mr. Johnson had some interesting sources and revelations. George Washington disliked the practice and hoped to see it slowly recede from the American scene. In his will he decreed his slaves be given freedom once his wife passed away and made it clear they were not to be sold or transported out of Virginia. Apparently in those days this was a remarkable thing for a Virginian to decree.
He had a remarkable interest in land and the development of navigation and unity within it. He owned plenty and constantly explored new ways to utilize it. Mount Vernon housed several experiments on agriculture and the like as he possessed great curiosity.
These were a few topics broached in the biography. The book is a through yet simple and short book by a trustworthy historian. I recommend it!
Johnson, Paul. George Washington:The Founding Father. HarperCollins Publishers, New York 2005.
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Homeschooling in America
George Washington: “My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.”
This is what our first national leader states about his mother and implies about home education. It speaks volumes to the effects mothers at home have on their children's characters and intellectual development. My mother heard on the radio today a remarkable story about Thomas Edison. I researched him and found a website with his biography. Apparently his teacher decided his broad forehead showed his brains were scattered or "'addled'" (Beals). The youngster according to the radio broadcast said he would never go back to school again. And he didn't. Rather, his mother took him under her wing and taught him "'the three R's'" and from Bible. with this he took off. Soon enough he'd surpassed his parents and began learning from a tutor. This didn't go so well and he began to teach himself. Everything he did is remarkable for a boy his age. This illustrates the principle that education doesn't depend on the teaching system of today. A child can excel outside of the system and expand his own learning through independent work.
Talking to a classmate on homeschooling, she commented how one must be textbook savvy. This is true, often homeschooling depends heavily on textbooks given the parents limited knowledge on every topic needed to learn. But this develops in the child great work habits... learning to take information from the book and working on his own to gain knowledge. It builds self-initiative skills as well. Also a child can develop without peer pressure and can focus on studying instead of complying with the pressure from his classmate.
To conclude, homeschooling has deep history roots and recommendations from men as fine and as far back as George Washington. It raises the mother in the eyes of the child, she is not only their mother she is their educator as well.
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/george_washington.html Retrieved April 30th, 2008
http://www.thomasedison.com/biography.html Retrieved May 3rd 2008
This is what our first national leader states about his mother and implies about home education. It speaks volumes to the effects mothers at home have on their children's characters and intellectual development. My mother heard on the radio today a remarkable story about Thomas Edison. I researched him and found a website with his biography. Apparently his teacher decided his broad forehead showed his brains were scattered or "'addled'" (Beals). The youngster according to the radio broadcast said he would never go back to school again. And he didn't. Rather, his mother took him under her wing and taught him "'the three R's'" and from Bible. with this he took off. Soon enough he'd surpassed his parents and began learning from a tutor. This didn't go so well and he began to teach himself. Everything he did is remarkable for a boy his age. This illustrates the principle that education doesn't depend on the teaching system of today. A child can excel outside of the system and expand his own learning through independent work.
Talking to a classmate on homeschooling, she commented how one must be textbook savvy. This is true, often homeschooling depends heavily on textbooks given the parents limited knowledge on every topic needed to learn. But this develops in the child great work habits... learning to take information from the book and working on his own to gain knowledge. It builds self-initiative skills as well. Also a child can develop without peer pressure and can focus on studying instead of complying with the pressure from his classmate.
To conclude, homeschooling has deep history roots and recommendations from men as fine and as far back as George Washington. It raises the mother in the eyes of the child, she is not only their mother she is their educator as well.
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/george_washington.html Retrieved April 30th, 2008
http://www.thomasedison.com/biography.html Retrieved May 3rd 2008
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