Old cemeteries are the epitome of somber, are they not?
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Tag: #FOWC
I Couldn’t Agree More
Whenever Alistair agreed with a point, he vigourously nodded his head to make his opinion known.
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The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent
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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A Strange Encounter
We came upon a clearing in the forest yesterday. It was littered with strange creatures.
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Winter Is Coming
Get out your thermal underwear, your sweater, you hoods.
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That’s the Style
This is a typical free-standing house in the Hessian part of the Odenwald. The ground floor on the outside is a plainly painted. The walls of the first floor and up are covered with wooden shingles, sometimes in natural brown wood colour, but often painted in pastel colours. In the middle of the roof is a large gable, decorated with wooden cut outs. The windows have a contrasting border.
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