Author: eklastic

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Leaf Gold

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The weather had looked kind of miserable but by driving to higher ground we broke through the clouds and were in unfiltered sunshine. The colour of the trees are just magical against the blue sky.

Which is not all that surprising considering that the two colours are almost directly opposite on the colour wheel:

Walking Square #16

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The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent

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was an essay by John Erskine, written about a hundred years ago. However, although intelligence is a given within certain margins, education is not. There is a moral obligation to educate children to the best of our possibilities and within the margins fo their possibilities.

Johann Pestalozzi lived and worked another 100 to 150 years earlier. He worked tirelessly to educate youngsters and became one of the greatest school and social reformers of all times. He believed that men could only be bettered if they were loved.

In his native Switzerland as well as in Germany many schools are named after him, like this Pestalozzischule where I spend my first four years in the school system.

FOWC with Fandango: Obligation

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