Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America’s Schools Back to Reality by Charles Murray is one of the best books that I have read about education...and I have read many.
‘For 234 years, every senator who has had the honor of serving in this distinguished body has assumed there was some basic written rules of decorum, conduct and civility, one of which was a dress code,’ said Manchin.
Decorum is on my WOTD vocabulary list this week in class. I will use this sentence for the weekly words in context quiz! By the way, everyone should dress for their job!
Might I also mention that everybody knows how to do stuff. It’s almost a parallel society. People learn to do electrical, plumbing, small engine repair, gardening, sewing, play music, hunting, fishing, hvac...you name it!
It’s a complicated area. My parents grew up here in the fifties and took the hillbilly highway out and raised me elsewhere. I came back to college here and left for better opportunities. My parents moved back after retirement. I moved back when my dad got sick. This is my home. The people here are some of the finest individuals you could ever know. People live their lives. Many find a way. It’s so much more than what most of media present.
I heard Dr. Carson speak several years ago at middle school conference in Baltimore. I have read a few of his books. I was so pleased when he ended up in the presidential primaries. Reading is key.
I believe in phonics 100%; however, there are many words in the English language that do not follow the rules of phonics, so we have to memorize sight words and or dulce words that are common to the language. I’m always surprised that students refuse to memorize anything which is a hinderance to all learning.
According to Scout, she learned how to read by sitting in Atticus’s lap while he read in the evenings. She would follow his finger as it moved while she listened to him read She claims that at some point, “the lines above Atticus’s finger separated into words”
Accepted a job out west when I graduated college...the locals saw me coming a mile away! I had no idea what mountain oysters were. I ate them, and they weren’t too bad! Made a lot of friends in those early 80s adventures!