I often wondered if my children would be able to speak in public since we were in a home learning setting and didn’t have opportunity for speaking to an audience. I didn’t enroll them in a coop or other setting to practice public speaking. Actually, I did, but we only made it a couple weeks- […]
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About 12 years ago as I sat planning picture study lessons, I evaluated where we were and what we had done. We had studied some of the older classic painters as we travelled along the line of history—Giotto, Van Eyck, Michelangelo, Vermeer, Bouguereau, Millet, Degas, Constable, Stuart, Copley, David, Homer… This time period is a
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“A Basis of Facts.—Of the teaching of Natural Philosophy, I will only remind the reader of what was said in an earlier chapter—that there is no part of a child’s education more important than that he should lay, by his own observation, a wide basis of facts towards scientific knowledge in the future. He
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