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As homeschoolers we tend to struggle with whether or not to pursue college for our children.  I am a firm believer that the Lord will provide the means and the vision if that is where He is calling our children.  I'm going to share with you a couple of paragraphs from the free e-book that I mentioned in the title.  Who do you think it came from:

"I began my studies with eagerness. Before me I saw a new world opening in beauty and light, and I felt within me the capacity to know all things. In the wonderland of Mind I should be as free as another [with sight and hearing]. Its people, scenery, manners, joys, and tragedies should be living tangible interpreters of the real world. The lecture halls seemed filled with the spirit of the great and wise, and I thought the professors were the embodiment of wisdom... But I soon discovered that college was not quite the romantic lyceum I had imagined. Many of the dreams that had delighted my young inexperience became beautifully less and "faded into the light of common day." Gradually I began to find that there were disadvantages in going to college. The one I felt and still feel most is lack of time. I used to have time to think, to reflect, my mind and I. We would sit together of an evening and listen to the inner melodies of the spirit, which one hears only in leisure moments when the words of some loved poet touch a deep, sweet chord in the soul that until then had been silent. But in college there is no time to commune with one's thoughts. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think. When one enters the portals of learning, one leaves the dearest pleasures – solitude, books and imagination – outside with the whispering pines. I suppose I ought to find some comfort in the thought that I am laying up treasures for future enjoyment, but I am improvident enough to prefer present joy to hoarding riches against a rainy day."

Whoa!!!  those are some heavy perceptions are they not?  Give up?  This is a quote from the book "Story of My Life by Helen Keller"

 

You can download the free E-book in pdf format at this link..................

 
The Story of My Life By Helen Keller

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Posted by hugabunchmom

Thanks so much for the link to this great e-book. I had just recently wanted to read more on Helen Keller, here is my opportunity. God just freaks me out sometimes on how he just hands me just what I was looking for. Hope things are great in your homeschool.

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Posted by DandelionSeeds

Thanks for stopping by and letting me know how things are going... I'm glad that it's still blessing your home, even if not on a "planned schedule"... good for you for sticking with it!

Blessings,
Amy

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Posted by eyecorn

Cathy:

I will be a vendor at CHAP...booths 926-929 (or right near there!). Please do stop by and say "Hi!" How exciting!!! I hope we do get to meet :)

CHAP is a HUGE show...I was mesmerized my first year there!

Michelle

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Posted by heavenlycreations

Thank you for sharing this wonderful e-book...I will download it to share with my family *Ü*.

I am so happy the links I provided regarding "Dissecting" were helpful to you. There is so much at our disposal via the internet. I truly try to share something that can benefit many *Ü*.

Please check back often as I have so much to share and many...many resources to make available too *Ü*.

Have a "Beautifully Blessed" week...

Deborah

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Posted by eyecorn

Ahhh, you're first time at CHAP! I thought our show in NC was overwhelming....until I walked into the Farm Complex. See ya this weekend!
Gee, I hope my kids are behaving when you come by!

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Posted by spunkyhomeschool

Thanks for sharing this. Excellent, just excellent!

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I'm still in the mindset that they "have to go" however, I may be open to other things. Even the self employed person would benefit from higher learning classes, or management and computer programming/software skills, which can perhaps be best learned by someone who knows it well. If my children wanted to learn something I totally didn't know, I'd recommend books, apprenticing, and adult education classes. Sometimes, an outside facilitator is nice. I understand that ungodly philosophies abound at the higher institutions too, but mostly in their "liberal arts" required courses, right? Maybe I'm wrong. But mostly
just thinking out loud,
Jen

Edited by heartmatters on Nov. 7, 2006 at 9:06 AM

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