Posted in Don Quixote, The Well Educated Mind on September 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m on chapter six of Don Quixote and I’ve got to wonder what one has to read to be the translator of a Spanish text that is 400 years old. Chapter six has DQ’s two closest friends going through his collection of romantic-chivalrous books and deciding which to save and which to burn.
This chapter lists several of the [...]
Posted in Daily Life - Daily Blessings, Don Quixote, The Well Educated Mind on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I spent the Fall and Winter months of this pregnancy reading my sister’s copy of The Well Trained Mind by Susan Wise Bauer– an absolutely inspiring book about classical education and how to do it (in children). Last summer, I also started slogging my way through The Charlotte Mason Companion. For those of you unfamiliar [...]
