James kay shuttleworth quotes of the day
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Editor’s Note by Richele Baburina
In 1942, the hundred-year anniversary of Charlotte Mason’s birth, a special Centenary edition of The Parents’ Review was published to commemorate all she had done for education as a life. The writers were varied. From former Parents’ Union School students to members of the royalty, each gave thanks to the woman who affected the nation—and the world—for the better. H.W. Household pointed out, “The child’s individuality was respected for the first time,”[1] and Irish poet Monk Gibbon wryly quipped that it is “thanks to her, a poet nowadays is allowed almost as much to say as his commentators.”[2]
The letters and articles from mothers with day-to-day experience using Miss Mason’s methods in their homes especially touch the heart. One such mother, Catherine Leaf, first shared her story fifteen years prior as a young mother of three at a conference held by the Parents’ National Educational Union before becoming Chair of their London Branch. In t
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Student Made History
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“The proprietors of one establishment in the trade which has been mentioned, think it expedient always to keep above ground a supply of coal, for six months, which is in that instance equal in value to about £10,000. ($15745.15 in today’s U.S dollars.)
The efforts of these associations have not [infrequently] occasioned the introduction of machinery into branches of labour, whence skill has been driven to undertake the severer and ill-rewarded occupation of ordinary toil. When machinery thus suddenly excludes skilled labour, much greater temporary distress is occasioned to the operative, than by the natural and gradual progress of mechanical improvements. …at a period when the advance of population was unchecked, but they have dissipated their own savings, as well as the [money] of the union, in useless efforts, and, when pride and passion have combined to prolong the struggle, their furniture and clothes have been sold, and
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Flannery O’Connor? Graham Wallas? E. M. Forster? Inger Stevens? August Heckscher? Paul Samuelson? Shirley MacLaine? Joan Didion? E. L. Doctorow? John Gregory Dunne? Edward Albee? Wendy Wasserstein? William Faulkner? Virginia Hamilton Adair? Stephen King?
Question for Quote Investigator: The process of writing helps to clarify thoughts and ideas. For example, some novelists do not outline their plots in advance; instead, they spontaneously construct story arcs while writing. Here are two versions of a pertinent comment:
(1) I write to find out what inom think.
(2) I don’t know what I think until inom read what I write.This remark has a humorous edge because thoughts are usually formulated before they are written down. This notion has been attributed to prominent short story writer and novelist Flannery O’Connor and to horror master Stephen King. Would you please explore this topic?
Reply from Quote Investigator: In 1948 Flannery O’Connor wrote a letter to her