I just took the Cedar Tree auction quilt off of the Megaquilter. Now to get it bound and signed over to the auction folks.
I should probably put a hanging sleeve on too. I don't know what quilting or sewing project I want to do next. It's kind of a nice place to be.
Reading
Real Education by Charles Murray, and not making a lot of progress on the Farmer McGregor socks. I haven't really felt like knitting lately. More precisely, I haven't felt very motivated to knit socks lately.
Real Education makes four arguments that are rather controversial in today's educational climate:
- Ability varies.
- Half of the children are below average.
- Too many people are going to college.
- America's future depends on how we educate the academically gifted.
Plenty of challenging stuff in there. As a teacher and as a mom of a special needs child, I can really sympathize with the argument that we can't realistically demand "no child left behind." And I can certainly sympathize with the despair of trying to educate someone who doesn't have the ability to understand the subject.
2 comments:
Beautiful quilt! I hope it auctions for a handsome sum ;-)
That book just sounds like common sense to me... But this is coming from a european standpoint. Our schoolsystem is very different and is based on the fact that children have different abilities and talents.
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