CONTINUING IN THE WORD
Perspectives on Homeschooling and Classical Christian Education from Scholars Online
Month: November 2023
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November 9: The Berlin Wall
I realize that this is more personal a reflection than I usually post here, but while one of the goals of education is to help you realize that you are part of a larger world, another equally critical goal is to learn to recognize when the larger world has become part of your identity. November…
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November 8: The Bodleian Library
I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately on the history of libraries, the level of literacy in the ancient and medieval world, and the manufacture of papyrus, parchment, scrolls, and codices. It’s a fascinating study, and sometimes painful, especially when the histories recount the destruction of libraries through deliberate acts or simply neglect and…
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November 7: Yohi Ik’nai
On the Nov 4 Wikipedia list of dates there is an entry for deaths: Yohi Ik’nal, “Lady Heart of the Wind Place”, but the Wikipedia article actually states the date as November 7, 604, hence the entry here. What leaps to my mind is “how do we know such a date?” After all, the Mayan…