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August 3, 2020

Common Place Quarterly-a magazine

Welcome to our cozy space on the internet. I hope that you have ended up here by means of a google search on education or..
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February 19, 2021

Mary Howitt

Most of us are familiar with the classic poem “The Spider and the Fly” which is a cautionary tale for both young and old about..
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January 30, 2021

Mary Monica Waterhouse Bridges

Mary Monica Waterhouse Bridges was born on Aug. 31, 1863 in Manchester, Lancashire, England to Alfred Waterhouse and Elizabeth Sarah Langton Hodgkin. Her father, Alfred,..
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January 22, 2021

Susana Wesley

“It is much to be wished that thoughtful mothers would more often keep account of the methods they employ with their children, with some definite..
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November 10, 2020

Interview with Tom Cox of grammaticus.co

The longer I taught and the more life experience I gained, the more I saw the practical wisdom offered in the Plutarch biographies. He was as much a philosopher as a historian and he vividly illustrates for us the relationship between virtue and happiness, without conflating happiness with money or power.
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August 18, 2020

A Compendium of Voices: Laura Fletcher

T he imagination is a wonderful thing. I loved watching my kids come up with wild and crazy ideas and then play for hours outside in the little wooded area near our home. But I’ve come to realize that the imagination is just as vital for adults as it is for children.
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August 1, 2020

Interview with Kelly Froisland of HearthRoom Press

Kelly has been working diligently for many years to reproduce Anna Comstock’s Handbook of Nature Study (HONS) notebooks. These notebooks are not as well known..
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February 7, 2020

William Wordsworth

Sofas and sectionals are streamlined, with narrow arms and storage in unexpected places, best-selling and well-priced SoMa Sleeper converts quickly into a small space bed.
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January 31, 2020

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

I had a new idea on how to group my items, and it was going to open the door for many more outfits. I was going to group them according to layers, people!
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January 31, 2020

Herbert Spencer

Scientists tell us that a dinner digests better because of a tasty dessert, which, they say, gives the final stimulus necessary to dispose of the food previously received.
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January 24, 2020

W. B. Carpenter

Throughout Mason’s volumes we will meet numerous people whose ideas and words influenced Mason as she developed an educational philosophy. Who where they? Let’s meet..
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January 10, 2020

F. D. Maurice

Welcome to Friday Introductions{Miss Mason’s World Edition}.Throughout Mason’s volumes we will meet numerous people whose ideas and words influenced Mason as she developed an educational..
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January 3, 2020

Charlotte Mason

Charlotte Mason –CHILDREN ARE BORN PERSONS– Our first introduction, by all rights, should be the very lady to whom we owe this particular blog series…Miss..
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