Author: Phoebe Gleeson

December 04, 2015 at 02:43PM

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Hanging out with Steve? and knitting on my modified #milo (Modifilo). Fides is baking cookies and listening to the Clancy Brothers, which means clearly I have raised at least one child right, and I’m going to make salmon croquettes for dinner. Those are the ways we are stewarding the world on this bright fall day. How are you? Have you told the people you love that you love them recently? #knitting #babysweater #vest
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December 02, 2015 at 12:16PM

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Knitting Quine’s modified Milo vest (knit flat til shoulder cast-off then joined in the round with button placket) and reading John Holt and Patrick Farenga’s Teach Your Own. John Holt was the first homeschool theorist I read. (The first book I ever read about homeschooling was Homeschooling for Excellence, by the Colfax family, and it is great too.) But back to John Holt. He just hits it out of the park. “People don’t change their ideas, much less their lives, because someone comes along with a clever argument to show that they’re wrong.” “Private action, however radical and satisfying, only becomes political when it is made known.” “Schools like to say that they create and spread knowledge. It would be closer to the truth to say they collect and hoard knowledge, corner the market on it if they can, so they can sell it at the highest possible price. That’s why they want everyone to believe that only what is learned in school is worth anything.” #homeschooling #unschooling #knitting #milo
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We are watching the first Spongebob movie. I’ll tell you, I really like this one. It’s goofy, a little scary, lots of laughs for everyone. I may be a little biased because it was one of Bede’s go-to films for a while, so I have seen it probably a hundred times. But still! Squidward smugly telling Plankton “You can’t fool me. *I* listen to public radio!” The dense obliviousness of Patrick, Spongebob’s Hero’s Journey, and that crazy rock song at the end… It’s a winner.