Comments for Circe Institute

Comment on Assessment matters by Angela

Angela — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:14:46 +0000

Maybe in the garden…

Comment on Assessment matters by Gail

Gail — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:58:45 +0000

“Realistic and practical” can be scary words when it comes to applying them to the growth of a human being, don’t you think? Sometimes it’s appropriate and sometimes it isn’t.

Assessment does matter, but it has to be in the hands of someone who is trustworthy and wise. That’s rarely the case, in my experience.

Comment on What Happens When a City Girl Reads Wendell Berry by The Heart Reordering Power of Fiction « Notes from a Small Place

The Heart Reordering Power of Fiction « Notes from a Small Place — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:02:26 +0000

[...] Angelina Stanford: I wasn’t intellectually persuaded by Mr.Berry. Rather my heart was reordered. He helped me to love that which I had previously found unloveable. And I knew, on some deep level, that all of the trappings of modernity, that which I had held to be superior, were really the cause of all my feelings of isolation and alienation and fragmentation. At last I had discovered what my soul was missing. And I was faced with the great irony that my whole life I had been celebrating the death of the very things that were, in fact, life. [...]

Comment on A Contemplation of Creation: Notes on Preparing/Reading by Andrew Kern

Andrew Kern — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:54:05 +0000

Axon,

We’ll wait patiently. Hart is amazingly insightful.

Comment on A Contemplation of Creation: Notes on Preparing/Reading by Axon

Axon — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:43:14 +0000

I just finished David Bentley Hart’s book, The Atheist Delusions. It is a stunning portrait of the Christian revolution and its influence on our conception of humanity. And I think it has implications for creation…just don’t ask me to articulate them right yet…

Comment on Aesop Got It Wrong! by Christine Jones

Christine Jones — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:10:59 +0000

Wow! Your post came on the exact day that I experienced frustration with my home educated high school student! She was mentally asleep, too. Thanks for the encouragement!!!!!

Comment on Boyhood at Risk (Part One) by Brian Phillips

Brian Phillips — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:01:16 +0000

Alison, I agree completely. “The Importance of Roughhousing with Your Kids” is an excellent article on an excellent site!

Comment on Boyhood at Risk (Part One) by David Kern

David Kern — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:21:15 +0000

Yes! And we highly recommend AoM!

Comment on Boyhood at Risk (Part One) by Alison Solove

Alison Solove — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:19:50 +0000

Readers interested in this topic should see the AoM post from which your image comes about the importance of roughhousing with your kids: http://artofmanliness.com/2012/02/07/the-importance-of-roughhousing-with-your-kids/

I’d also highly recommend Leonard Sax’s Boy’s Adrift, available on Amazon.com.

Thank you for bringing attention to this important issue!

Comment on One Easy Way to Destroy a School (or Community, or Life) by Steve Billingsley

Steve Billingsley — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:31:03 +0000

Reminds me of Thomas Gradgrind. – “What we want are the facts”!