Thoughts on education and parenting
One hundred words a high school student (and his parents!) should know (10.02.2003)
About college (11.16.2003)
We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming... (2.25.2004)
(Behind the scenes) at the museum (3.20.2004)
Reading, thinking, learning (5.09.2004)
An open letter (9.01.2004)
The monastic preservation of our culture (9.30.2004)
Parenting as performance art revisited (1.31.2005)
Feed a cold; starve a (spring) fever? (4.22.2005)
Be a sun. (5.05.2005)
Paying for college: A rant of modest proportions (5.20.2005)
Morning meditation: What I live for (8.11.2005)
Life is short. (8.26.2005)
Many folks think... (9.15.2005)
Parent-teacher (9.17.2005)
I think... (10.07.2005)
A typical night and day here (10.11.2005)
Simple ways to inject fun into your children's learning days (11.01.2005)
Advice to a new homeschooling mother (11.02.2005)
"Good teaching isn't about being the old bore at the front of the class with a textbook." (11.14.2005)
On writing... and thinking (12.03.2005)
Let's go. (12.28.2005)
It all begins with me. (3.18.2006)
Guard (6.13.2006)
The one you remember (9.07.2006)
Shakespeare. Yes, again. And again. (9.30.2006)
Fine Art Friday: The Lesson (11.10.2006)
When other homeschoolers "fail" (3.29.2007)
Twenty-five cedar waxwings... (4.25.2007)
On parenting teenagers (7.22.2007)
Teach, damn it. (8.15.2007)
Speaking practically (9.19.2007)
"The quality of teachers affects student performance more than anything else." (11.07.2007)
"They think... you rock." (11.15.2007)
Elsewhere... (11.20.2007)
A lifetime of excellence (12.29.2007)
"[T]he quality of an education system cannot exceed the quality of its teachers."
Advice: Take it. Leave it. (5.01.2008)
Sancti-Mom-ious (5.16.2008)
A typical day and night here redux (5.28.2008)
"Everyone wants to triumph. But not everyone can—in fact, most can’t. If they could, it wouldn’t be any kind of a triumph at all." (6.05.2008)
"[D]reary, boring, sadly misguided Kindergarchy" (6.07.2008) (3.06.2008)
About college (11.16.2003)
We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming... (2.25.2004)
(Behind the scenes) at the museum (3.20.2004)
Reading, thinking, learning (5.09.2004)
An open letter (9.01.2004)
The monastic preservation of our culture (9.30.2004)
Parenting as performance art revisited (1.31.2005)
Feed a cold; starve a (spring) fever? (4.22.2005)
Be a sun. (5.05.2005)
Paying for college: A rant of modest proportions (5.20.2005)
Morning meditation: What I live for (8.11.2005)
Life is short. (8.26.2005)
Many folks think... (9.15.2005)
Parent-teacher (9.17.2005)
I think... (10.07.2005)
A typical night and day here (10.11.2005)
Simple ways to inject fun into your children's learning days (11.01.2005)
Advice to a new homeschooling mother (11.02.2005)
"Good teaching isn't about being the old bore at the front of the class with a textbook." (11.14.2005)
On writing... and thinking (12.03.2005)
Let's go. (12.28.2005)
It all begins with me. (3.18.2006)
Guard (6.13.2006)
The one you remember (9.07.2006)
Shakespeare. Yes, again. And again. (9.30.2006)
Fine Art Friday: The Lesson (11.10.2006)
When other homeschoolers "fail" (3.29.2007)
Twenty-five cedar waxwings... (4.25.2007)
On parenting teenagers (7.22.2007)
Teach, damn it. (8.15.2007)
Speaking practically (9.19.2007)
"The quality of teachers affects student performance more than anything else." (11.07.2007)
"They think... you rock." (11.15.2007)
Elsewhere... (11.20.2007)
A lifetime of excellence (12.29.2007)
"[T]he quality of an education system cannot exceed the quality of its teachers."
Advice: Take it. Leave it. (5.01.2008)
Sancti-Mom-ious (5.16.2008)
A typical day and night here redux (5.28.2008)
"Everyone wants to triumph. But not everyone can—in fact, most can’t. If they could, it wouldn’t be any kind of a triumph at all." (6.05.2008)
"[D]reary, boring, sadly misguided Kindergarchy" (6.07.2008) (3.06.2008)









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