Facebook put up a picture of a birthday cake yesterday with this caption:
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Birthday cakes are made for people to be together. They give friends a place to gather and celebrate. But too much cake probably isn’t healthy. So birthday cake is a lot like Facebook.
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It is easy to spend (waste?) a lot of time on Facebook. I try to limit myself to about thirty minutes a day. Mostly I want to stay in touch with family and close friends.
Hat tip: Tech Crunch
Interesting thought about true knowledge
I like this thought, but I don't know how much I believe it:
True knowledge is not attained by thinking.
It is what you are; it is what you become.
- Sri Aurobindo
From my Franklin Covey planner.
True knowledge is not attained by thinking.
It is what you are; it is what you become.
- Sri Aurobindo
From my Franklin Covey planner.
Book review: Towards Zero by Agahta Christie
I have always enjoyed a story by Agatha Christie. She has earned the reputation as one of the world’s most popular writers.
Towards Zero starts off with a group of lawyers talking about a recent acquittal. A senior lawyer makes the observation that murder is often the result of careful planning and unforeseen events. He calls the time of the actual murder the “Zero Hour.”
With this as the background we read the thoughts of a man who has been planning to kill someone. We have the vaguest of hints as to the coming murder, but we don’t have enough information to know who this man is or who he plans to kill. Then we are introduced to a group of people. We get to know them, their fears, and their follies. Two people die. The police are called in. We’re walked through their thoughts and findings until finally the murderer is uncovered and justice prevails.
Good mysteries are a kind of puzzle. We have pieces which we try to fit together. More and more pieces are revealed through the story. A well done mystery concludes with the author putting in the last piece and the reader is satisfied. Agatha Christie does this in “Toward Zero.”
All in all this is a very pleasant story. I had trouble putting it down. If you like Agatha Christie stories I’m sure you’ll enjoy this Towards Zero.
Towards Zero starts off with a group of lawyers talking about a recent acquittal. A senior lawyer makes the observation that murder is often the result of careful planning and unforeseen events. He calls the time of the actual murder the “Zero Hour.”
With this as the background we read the thoughts of a man who has been planning to kill someone. We have the vaguest of hints as to the coming murder, but we don’t have enough information to know who this man is or who he plans to kill. Then we are introduced to a group of people. We get to know them, their fears, and their follies. Two people die. The police are called in. We’re walked through their thoughts and findings until finally the murderer is uncovered and justice prevails.
Good mysteries are a kind of puzzle. We have pieces which we try to fit together. More and more pieces are revealed through the story. A well done mystery concludes with the author putting in the last piece and the reader is satisfied. Agatha Christie does this in “Toward Zero.”
All in all this is a very pleasant story. I had trouble putting it down. If you like Agatha Christie stories I’m sure you’ll enjoy this Towards Zero.
Susan Wise Bauer won't be speaking at homeschooling conferences anymore
Janine and I typically attend one homeschooling conference each year. We don't follow the homeschooling conference world very closely. Susan Wise Bauer was the top speaker at one of the first conferences we attended. She gave a wonderful seminar and we still have the cassette tape recordings of her presentation.
Home-schooling pioneer Susan Wise Bauer is well-versed in controversy reveals that Susan has gotten grief and decided to stop speaking at homeschooling conventions. It is too bad. I have a lot of respect for Susan. Her book The Well Trained Mind was one of the first homeschooling books we read.
If you haven't read her typical days, check out: 1998, 1999,2000, and 2004.
I wish her well in her future endeavors.
Home-schooling pioneer Susan Wise Bauer is well-versed in controversy reveals that Susan has gotten grief and decided to stop speaking at homeschooling conventions. It is too bad. I have a lot of respect for Susan. Her book The Well Trained Mind was one of the first homeschooling books we read.
If you haven't read her typical days, check out: 1998, 1999,2000, and 2004.
I wish her well in her future endeavors.
Study finds homeschoolers are Happier, Better-Adjusted in College
Isabel Lyman used to blog extensively about homeschooling at The Homeschool Revolution. She also wrote a book with the same title. In 2007 she moved on.
Yesterday she wrote an article about homeschoolers. Study: Homeschoolers Happier, Better-Adjusted in College starts with:
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The nation’s approximately two million homeschoolers, whom others frequently scrutinize and even stigmatize as socially inept, are better emotionally adjusted in college than their non-homeschooled peers, a new study concludes.
A peer-reviewed study titled “The Impact of Homeschooling on the Adjustment of College Students,” by Cynthia K. Drenovsky, a sociology professor at Shippensburg University, and Isaiah Cohen, compared the self-esteem and depression of conventionally-schooled college students to college students who had a homeschooling background.
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Later the article shares:
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Drenovsky and Cohen concluded homeschoolers “do not exhibit any significant differences in self-esteem, and they experience significantly lower levels of depression than those with no homeschooling.”----------
The study had a small sample size. It would be interesting to have another study with a larger sample.
Yesterday she wrote an article about homeschoolers. Study: Homeschoolers Happier, Better-Adjusted in College starts with:
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The nation’s approximately two million homeschoolers, whom others frequently scrutinize and even stigmatize as socially inept, are better emotionally adjusted in college than their non-homeschooled peers, a new study concludes.
A peer-reviewed study titled “The Impact of Homeschooling on the Adjustment of College Students,” by Cynthia K. Drenovsky, a sociology professor at Shippensburg University, and Isaiah Cohen, compared the self-esteem and depression of conventionally-schooled college students to college students who had a homeschooling background.
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Later the article shares:
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Drenovsky and Cohen concluded homeschoolers “do not exhibit any significant differences in self-esteem, and they experience significantly lower levels of depression than those with no homeschooling.”----------
The study had a small sample size. It would be interesting to have another study with a larger sample.
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