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A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-first Century by Oliver Van DeMille
I absolutely loved this book! I feel inspired to be better, teach my children to be better, and to get educated and love education. I really feel like this is a worth-while read, a book that everyone should read, it truly gave me great perspective to how I want to change my learning process. I want my children to start this "new process" right away, so they don't have to start over when they are 30 years old... :)
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April 1999
Books I'm Loving
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Capital Gaines: The Smart things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff by Chip Gaines
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Mafia to Mormon by Mario Facione
Will-isms
Will: (Speaking about us and where we live:
"I like the house, I just don't like the family."
(Driving home from our friend's house late at night)
Will: "I know how to read in my head. I just sit there and do nothing."
Will (doing his "job", cleaning his room):"That's why I like James so much, his job is just to be cute."
Will, calling for help from the bathroom:
"Moooommmm! I'm dooonnne!
Mom enters the bathroom:
Will: "I'm glad it's you."
Mom: "What do you mean?"
Will: "Sometimes I call for Mom and Dad comes."
Mom: "Oh..."
Will: "I like to call for different characters in our family."
Will at the dinner table:
"I don't like corn."
"...and here's the other thing about corn, I don't like beans."
12/13/09
Will: (Running down the hallway toward me) Mom! Mom! Will you call the police on daddy when he gets home?
Mom: Call the police on daddy? Why?
Will: Because I don't want him to see the big mess I made.
Will: Mom, can I have a sugar stick?(One of those Dip stick things)
Mom: No, not right now, you've already had a treat.
Will: Mom, can I get a prize from the prize box? (Little treats and toys for doing chores etc.)
Mom: Not right now, lets get our work done.
Will: (Quite frustrated) Mom! I want a treat! Can I have a treat!
Mom: Not right now, lets eat lunch first OK?
Will: D_ _ _!
Mom: What did you say?
Patrick: Oh, he just said, Daahhh!
Mom: Oh
Will: No, I said Damn
"I like the house, I just don't like the family."
(Driving home from our friend's house late at night)
Will: "I know how to read in my head. I just sit there and do nothing."
Will (doing his "job", cleaning his room):"That's why I like James so much, his job is just to be cute."
Will, calling for help from the bathroom:
"Moooommmm! I'm dooonnne!
Mom enters the bathroom:
Will: "I'm glad it's you."
Mom: "What do you mean?"
Will: "Sometimes I call for Mom and Dad comes."
Mom: "Oh..."
Will: "I like to call for different characters in our family."
Will at the dinner table:
"I don't like corn."
"...and here's the other thing about corn, I don't like beans."
12/13/09
Will: (Running down the hallway toward me) Mom! Mom! Will you call the police on daddy when he gets home?
Mom: Call the police on daddy? Why?
Will: Because I don't want him to see the big mess I made.
Will: Mom, can I have a sugar stick?(One of those Dip stick things)
Mom: No, not right now, you've already had a treat.
Will: Mom, can I get a prize from the prize box? (Little treats and toys for doing chores etc.)
Mom: Not right now, lets get our work done.
Will: (Quite frustrated) Mom! I want a treat! Can I have a treat!
Mom: Not right now, lets eat lunch first OK?
Will: D_ _ _!
Mom: What did you say?
Patrick: Oh, he just said, Daahhh!
Mom: Oh
Will: No, I said Damn
Life-Changing Book
A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-first Century by Oliver Van DeMilleMy review
rating: 5 of 5 starsI absolutely loved this book! I feel inspired to be better, teach my children to be better, and to get educated and love education. I really feel like this is a worth-while read, a book that everyone should read, it truly gave me great perspective to how I want to change my learning process. I want my children to start this "new process" right away, so they don't have to start over when they are 30 years old... :)
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- Denise
- I've grown up in Utah my whole life. I come from a huge family and I love it! I enjoy cooking, reading and hanging out with my family and friends.
"It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives."
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5 comments:
I LOVE it!! It would have been a blast to have been able to hang out for New Years. We were in bed by 11 here too, Mark had to be up bright and early this morning for work! Happy New Year!!
Absolutely amusing! That's usually me on the couch fast asleep by the time New Year's rolls around. We all managed to stay awake... until 12:05!
Looks like my kind of party.
John must have learned that pose from observing Gary all these years!
Hey that looks just like us!! Sometimes it's so nice to just stay home with the fam.!! Hope your new year is going well!
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