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  1. Zelda
    Thank you!
  2. Zelda
    ;) It was worth a shot.
  3. Zelda
    Thank you! I will await further instructions. :)
  4. Zelda
    :smilielol5: I really should. I'm nice now. :Angel_anim:
  5. Zelda
    Really enjoying ALL this year. After this week, we will be ready for more weeks than are currently available. I'm wondering how/when we would go about obtaining more of the lessons. Thanks for any assistance.
  6. Zelda
    I could not agree more. We started with CW-Aesop in 3rd (we are now in CW-Aesop B) and the difference in her writing from before and after is impressive. While the authors' overview of the progym can be dense, the explanations of how to implement the program are not and the workbooks provide even more guidance. Once you get going it becomes very easy to teach. And a good bit of grammar gets learned in the process. I've been very happy with it.
  7. Zelda
    Seriously? Are we trying to get into the Guinness Book of World Records for being the first message board ever to be free of snark? Because I think that's a great idea. No. Really.
  8. Zelda
    The question is legitimate because in the past we've been admonished to "go back to discussing home school" or words to that effect.
  9. Zelda
    If you do this early enough its two, two, TWO lessons in one.
  10. Zelda
    It wasn't Mother Goose? I don't know about your gaps in virtue but I've yet to see gaps in your logic, like ad hominem fallacies and such.
  11. Zelda
    I actually think some people just can't stand to admit that everyone isn't perfectly equal. So they take the word 'educated' and change the meaning so that everyone can wear it without doing all that exhausting reading. You know, someday I mean to be truly educated and I don't really want to be called educated until I've achieved it honestly. I'm okay with being things like "good with ______" or "knowledgeable about ______" until then.
  12. Zelda
    I don't believe in entitlements or relativism. :001_smile:
  13. Zelda
    If one does not have some knowledge of Poe then one is not well educated. One may be a very nice person who likes to think of themselves as educated but they're not educated. Just nice. Why isn't just nice good enough? I'm enjoying people saying, on the one hand, that being industrious is just as good as being educated and then absolutely bristling when someone is called uneducated. The argument could be that being educated is not as important or is less important than other achievements or virtues but instead it became an argument that education has no definition and we are all educated in our own way. It just illustrates how much value is really placed on being educated. Some will acquire it and others will just assume the mantel but the difference will always be obvious.
  14. Zelda
    You get more attention/compassion/pity/praise in some circles for what you lack than what you achieve.
  15. Zelda
    Yes, by an objective definition of 'educated' and not some loosey-goosey interpretation of education wherein no one would ever fall outside the definition of educated. Don't worry, I'm a dying breed and the "New Age Feel Gooderies" have won the canon wars. And now you can get a "crocodile in spelling" instead of being judged by some archaic standard that doesn't matter in the real world where no one spells anything anymore anyway. KWIM? TTYL.
  16. Zelda
    No, I don't like to laugh at people or judge their worth based upon how educated they are. But I do judge how educated they are by certain standards like whether or not they have at least a passing familiarity with Poe.
  17. Zelda
    I don't understand how the first part relates to what I said. I do not think that one can be educated and not know who Poe was. One may make great contributions to society with no knowledge of Poe but that will never make them educated.
  18. Zelda
    In a world where everything is equal and there can be no distinction between the educated and the uneducated for fear of hurt feelings, then there can be no standard by which to judge one's level of education. They might as well hand out diplomas with birth certificates. But if one lived in a world where there could be some people who were educated and some people who weren't, in which the people who weren't accepted that they weren't then yes...there would be some body of knowledge that would be required in order to be considered educated.
  19. Zelda
    My life doesn't allow for much dressing up (or dressing up my girls) so I jump on it when given the chance. I would.
  20. Zelda
    These are all good points. What's also nice about Facebook is that if I have some big news to share I can just post it there and not have to actually interface in any meaningful way with anyone.
  21. Zelda
    It is funny but its also a good point. It seems like it would be more productive to ask the friends about it.
  22. Zelda
    :hurray:
  23. Zelda
    Congrats and you have chosen one of my absolute favorite names.
  24. Zelda
    Someone once gave me a book by Og Mandino.
  25. Zelda
    Zut alors!
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