The Week In Homeschooling: The Making of Halloween

Thursday, October 23, 2008

The Making of Halloween

Craft books for kids- in which projects require kid skills to create items for kids

Vs.

Craft books for adults- in which projects require adult skills to create items for kids

My kids regularly peruse

the arts and crafts section at the library. They found their hearts’ desires last month in a couple of craft book Halloween costume patterns.

Half way through, after many bucks left behind at Hobby Lobby and at least

a half dozen enduring hot glue burns, I proclaim that &##!@**! book to fall in the latter category. I’m also seriously curious about the library’s classification procedure.

Some Quotes I Like

I've come to believe that genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us. John Taylor Gatto

Kids don't want Quality Time, they want Quantity Time, big, stinking, lazy, non-productive Quantity Time. Al Franken

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. Mark Twain

The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about. David Attenborough

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect. Jacques Yves Cousteau

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird… So let’s look at the bird and see what it’s doing—that’s what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. Richard Feynman

The Week In Homeschooling

Thursday, October 23, 2008

The Making of Halloween

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