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"The early-years curriculum described is one which produces skillful hand-eye co-ordination, and also teaches children to think “showily,” to quote Anne Sullivan; but which misses out on heart. It is the equivalent of learning scales without music, or capitals of the world without people."
Scales without music! 🥺
— Jul 17, 2026 01:30PM
Scales without music! 🥺
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"Small twigs copied with “tender fidelity” in a nature notebook are better, truer, than an entire lollipop-style tree, which is painted without much thought, pinned up for a week, and then thrown away."
— Jul 21, 2026 10:37AM
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"Likewise, to teach drawing, the major lines would be just enough. The brush-drawn flower might be rough, and the early narrations lack detail, but were the children seeing? Were they listening? Were they catching the “key lines,” the “pictures themselves?” That was more important."
— Jul 19, 2026 11:25PM
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"'The wonder that Almighty God can endure so far to leave the very making of an immortal being in the hands of human parents is only matched by the wonder that human parents can accept this divine trust with hardly a thought of its significance.'c
— Jul 07, 2026 08:31AM