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To Laughter: My toast to all of you for 2008

December 31st, 2007 · 1 Comment · Four pillars

2007 has been a good year for me. There is much I have learnt, much that I have enjoyed.
And one of the things I have enjoyed, and enjoyed tremendously at that, is discovering Randall Munroe, via my son.
If you haven’t done so already, start reading xkcd. Here’s an example:

If you have, but you didn’t know [...]

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Musing quietly about “literacy”

December 31st, 2007 · 8 Comments · Books, Education

“I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning; for that is a sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention; because you have done a great deal when you have brought him to have entertainment from a book. He’ll get better books [...]

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