Love Quote By Heinlein

Posted on September 21, 2007 by seanb724

I can’t believe this is nowhere in my old reading notebooks or in the blog — I just searched around and could not find it, but here is one of my all time favorite quotes:

“Love” is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.: -Jubal Harshaw, Stranger in a Strange Land

I was at a wedding last weekend in which the best man’s toast included this quote. The toast was probably the best I’ve ever heard, and of course I love the reference to this quote, as I always use it in my definition of love…

On a side note that made me chuckle, one of the guys on a table next to us said “Robert who??”

Sigh… Only the grandfather of SciFi…

The Well-Trained Mind (A Guide to Classical Education at Home)

Posted on September 20, 2007 by seanb724

Susan Wise Bauer and Jessie Wise

This is another book for the school, but also for personal use. It is geared towards home-schooling using the classical method, but I got it to help me better understand the curriculum our school will have, but also for some ideas we can do at home both now and in the future to supplement the school. I only read K-4 but will read the other sections more later when our kids are older and the school adds additional grades beyond K-4.

Recently Read Books

Posted on September 18, 2007 by seanb724

‘ve been really bad about posting anything on the books I’ve read recently, so I’m going to do a very quick mass post to catch up, which means I won’t be writing much about any of them at this point…

We are working on opening a Classical Christian School, so I’ve been doing a lot of reading in tht area. Wilson is one of the founders of Logos, and that is the real 1st school that started off this style of educaiton… Harsh Truth is a bit sensationalist and goes on and on in some areas where just a little info would have been plenty:

We have looked at various real estate for investment purposes. The following is a good beginners book, to at least get an overview. But depending on what you want to do, you will likely want to read more in depth books on specific areas.