Comments on: Classical Education: Mind & Soul

By: folding foam chair and bed

folding foam chair and bed — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 06:44:43 +0000

folding foam chair and bed

As always a good post .

By: Anne

Anne — Thu, 04 May 2006 15:41:40 +0000

Thank you for so succinctly putting into words what I’ve felt. You are so right.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Thu, 04 May 2006 02:32:10 +0000

Laura,
I had a vague idea of maybe trying to log in each day (on the blog) something I had done to feed my children’s souls. This sounds sort of oxymoronic but what I was thinking is that it would help me to think more in those terms and help others to look for ways.

Yesterday evening I had a rare quiet moment with just my little boys. They were sleepy and I didn’t really feel like reading them a book. So the three of us cuddled up on the couch while I recited a few poems that I know by heart: Wynken, Blynken & Nod, James, James,Morrison, Morrison etc. We ended up by singing our family bedtime song: The Lord Bless You and Keep You (Michael Card version) and I just sat there thinking how much I loved those two little gifts from God.

Those types of things have to be grabbed in moments and so many times I let them slip.
I hesitate to record them because it could sound like bragging which it would certainly not be.

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 04 May 2006 02:16:17 +0000

As always, you give me food for thought. Please think about doing a follow-up post on ways to feed our children’s souls. You said every year you try to find more ways to do this. Do tell. I’m all ears. : ) God bless you, friend.
Oh ~ did you find a car?

By: Deputyheadmistress

Deputyheadmistress — Thu, 04 May 2006 00:47:20 +0000

“You can’t buy souls for your children.”
Excellent, worthy, woman. Thank-you.

By: kerri

kerri — Wed, 03 May 2006 04:16:13 +0000

This was so easy with my first-she took to reading like a duck to water and I didn’t feel like I had to spend much time on the basics with her. My next one is 12 and he’s just starting to read for pleasure. Really just started reading with understanding in the past couple years. And his spelling…He really works hard on it-he wants to do well. But it is such a stuggle for him. On one hand I want to have more time to do other things, but I also know he compares himself to the other kids at church. It’s hard to find a balance these days.

By: Janet

Janet — Tue, 02 May 2006 19:42:29 +0000

This was such an encouragement to me. We are wrestling with a very big decision and we keep coming back to the hearts and souls of our children. What could be more important.

By: karen

karen — Tue, 02 May 2006 18:15:26 +0000

“A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.” (”A Grammar of Shelley”…) - GK Chesterton

I often think that the wall we hit our head against over and over is this idea/lifestyle that makes education is an end in itself. (It reminds me alot of the pursuit of perfect doctrine.) This pursuit takes on a life of its own and in the case of our present culture (and much of homeschooling culture) we are often carried far off course by the tornadic winds of a “good education”. What is our chief end anyway? Milton’s idea that learning is a way to regain a right knowledge of God I appreciate along with CS Lewis’ thoughts on education (Surprised by Joy particularly)
Unfortunately I am still quite cowardly when it comes to admitting what I have been doing all year with the boys’ education…reading and long walks filled with enjoyable questions, etc.,etc….They don’t even know that tests exist yet!!!

Love, K

By: KimC

KimC — Tue, 02 May 2006 15:17:14 +0000

Cindy,
Let me be the first to thank you for that moving reminder! It’s so easy to caught up in the dry facts and forget the Father of Truth who created everything beautiful and gave us the ability to appreciate that beauty!