These weeks, it seems the updates are by week. It is an interesting period in life and it's also interesting to actively desire a public blog--public to the chimerical few that don't even exist in my mind. The Age of the Internet, my dear families, is a unique moment we are graced with in time. Have you felt the excitement of creating what we're going to be passing on? Our histories. In, I am theorizing educatedly, two hundred, to two-hundred and fifty years, what we do today, will absolutely matter. Maybe not you and I, but we will be a part of it somehow.
This brings me to about 1750, then I have to fast forward up to 1806 to meet John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor, home-schooling (our schooling system in general could be a long and engaging discussion), and accomplishment after true love.
Finally, how can anyone find philosophy and history boring? It is truly a mark of someone in great need of a better educator, one who can breath fire back into any pile of ashes.
London (of course) John Stuart Mill is being reared heavily by his father James; Greek by age three, Latin by age eight, this guy read six Dialogues of Plato by the age of ten. The trouble with this terrific regimen of intellectual progression was its delivery as coupled with a lack of affection--so much so that it affects the way Mill even reasoned for his own lacking ability for sentiments. He did find love eventually, in a woman married to a merchant who sparked new facets, and greatly influenced his intellectuality--the only other on par with his father's influence. When she was widowed, they married some years later and moved from London down to Avignon, France. They were both a bit sickly at the time, and she died shortly afterwards. In the following seven years, John Stuart Mill accomplished more than ever before, and it meant little to him--or at least that's one way my history, and ours, can tell it.
He died in 1873 after writing his Autobiography.
So, how can anyone find philosophy and history boring? Let us wait to discuss our schooling system and what we're setting up for the future--not the one we see, but the one that even they won't see--the one about two hundred, to two-hundred and fifty years out.
Have a great long weekend coming up. Looking forward to any comments I may receive.
K.S.
This brings me to about 1750, then I have to fast forward up to 1806 to meet John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor, home-schooling (our schooling system in general could be a long and engaging discussion), and accomplishment after true love.
Finally, how can anyone find philosophy and history boring? It is truly a mark of someone in great need of a better educator, one who can breath fire back into any pile of ashes.
London (of course) John Stuart Mill is being reared heavily by his father James; Greek by age three, Latin by age eight, this guy read six Dialogues of Plato by the age of ten. The trouble with this terrific regimen of intellectual progression was its delivery as coupled with a lack of affection--so much so that it affects the way Mill even reasoned for his own lacking ability for sentiments. He did find love eventually, in a woman married to a merchant who sparked new facets, and greatly influenced his intellectuality--the only other on par with his father's influence. When she was widowed, they married some years later and moved from London down to Avignon, France. They were both a bit sickly at the time, and she died shortly afterwards. In the following seven years, John Stuart Mill accomplished more than ever before, and it meant little to him--or at least that's one way my history, and ours, can tell it.
He died in 1873 after writing his Autobiography.
So, how can anyone find philosophy and history boring? Let us wait to discuss our schooling system and what we're setting up for the future--not the one we see, but the one that even they won't see--the one about two hundred, to two-hundred and fifty years out.
Have a great long weekend coming up. Looking forward to any comments I may receive.
K.S.
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