After most of a week of fairly serious subjects for blogging, how about some fun for the weekend? Here are a few things I've collected this week:
- Martin Cothran from Memoria Press has a fun article in their recent catalog/magazine on the Harry Potter books, entitled, "Harry Potter and the Attack of the Critics". Cothran claims:
"To a child who is not well-read, Harry potter is dangerous--and so is any other book he or she may read. But the best defense against one idea is not fewer ideas, but more of them; and the best defense against one book is a whole host of them. Being widely read, in other words, is the best inoculation agaihnst the dangers of literature. Being widely read enables a person to not only see an idea, but, as Chesterton put it, to see through it.
"Literature is dangerous--except when taken in large doses."
I went hunting for a link, but the current issue is not online yet. It is published as their catalog, along with several other interesting articles. The articles in this issue are by Joe Paterno on how his love of Latin affected his view of football, another article by Cothran on what makes a "great book" great, an article by Andrew Campbell entitled, "Ordering Knowledge to the Child's Nature", and an article by Cheryl Lowe on why read the Iliad. The catalog is worth it just for the article! You can get a
free subscription here.
- I thought I was a pretty virtuous homeschooling mom when we mummified a chicken with our study of ancient Egypt (one was named King Cluck...), and when we did all of life science and biology dissections in my kitchen. But check out what GeekDad did for his study of anatomy! Hats off to you, GeekDad, and all those other inspiring teachers who labor with their own children at home.
After most of a week of fairly serious subjects for blogging, how about some fun for the weekend? Here are a few things I've collected this week:
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