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"Everybody did their best; and, dear reader, if it has ever been your
earthly portion to live with a number of people who were all doing
their best, you do not need me to tell you what a heavenly atmosphere
this creates."
Owen Wister, The Virginian
What does it mean to do your best? I don't know if anyone else can answer that for you, but I do have a couple of suggestions:
1. You don't have to be perfect to be spectacular.
Parents and educators all over the world
are making a positive difference by integrating idealistic principles
into their family culture. The transition isn't immediate, but in some
important ways the results are. Within just a few days' time a
new level of hope and vision can be sensed; over time, and with the
incorporation of more and more principles, confidence can be gained that
hoped-for changes are on the horizon.
2. An investment in your education is not a withdrawal from your children's education.
To the contrary: it actually is a lever
that impacts your children exponentially. As we come Face-to-Face with
Greatness in the classics, we are changed; and our ability to make a
difference in our relationships, in our sphere of influence and in the
lives of our children is greatly impacted. I hope that everyone that
reads this will feel the desire and make the commitment so that we as
parents and educators, for ourselves and for the rising generation, get An Education to Match Our Mission.
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From the Introduction:
For centuries, philosophers have
contemplated the meaning of Life. One convenient metaphor is that Life
is a school, a never-ending series of lessons in the art of being Human.
By this measure, all learning is worthwhile; the knowledge gained in
the school of "hard knocks" is just as valuable as that gained from
brick-and-mortar institutions.
Of course, we can avoid the "knocks" for
ourselves by choosing to discover the truths revealed in the trials of
others. The core of such self-education is a good dose of classics.
However, even a constant
diet of Great Books is useless if we do not study in a way that helps us
to properly digest their Ideas!
Readers may be divided into four classes:
- Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied.
- Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time.
- Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read.
- Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Getting Started
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by Rachel DeMille
You know, some people hear the principles of Leadership Education (TJEd "tee-jay-ed") articulated just once and think, "Right! That makes perfect sense!"
They are ready to just go for it.
If
this describes you, getting started is pretty simple: Make a list of
your personal classics, and pick one.
You know, the one you've been
waiting for just the right time to read?
Give yourself permission to
make your own education a priority, carry that book around with you, and
get through it--or should I say, get it through you.
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