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History is the potter, we are the clay
Yazan: Clint | 27 September 2010 | No Comments
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In 2005 historian David McCullough—the author of Truman and John Adams, among many excellent others (and the narrator of Seabiscuit and Ken Burns’ The Civil War)—gave a speech in which he spoke of the value and necessity of knowing history. The whole speech is excellent, but one section in particular stands out for the shrewd [...]
Our first field trip
Yazan: Clint | 13 September 2010 | No Comments
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I’m running way behind on posts, only because actual schooling has been taking the place of writing about schooling. Well, that and a few other things. But I do hope to post more regularly here. In this case, yes, on the 13th I took the kids on our first field trip, literally. There’s a small [...]
