Book of Centuries
A reflection on historical memory, timelines, and the strange experience of placing lives, events, and ideas beside one another across centuries.
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Education as Atmosphere
On creating the type of environment necessary for the learner to thrive: the ambiance for deep thought, and the atmosphere for creativity and synthesis.
Read more →Home Education by Charlotte Mason
Notes on Charlotte Mason’s philosophy of education, including living books, narration, atmosphere, habit formation, and the cultivation of a rich intellectual life.
Read more →The Little House Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Notes on The Little House books, their vision of family life, work, self-reliance, childhood, and the rhythms of a household shaped by the seasons.
Read more →Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Ilich
Notes on Ivan Illich’s vision of convivial tools: technologies and institutions that expand human agency rather than constrain it.
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