THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Even so those who teach little children too often have the idea that they are educating babies and seek to place themselves on the child’s level by approaching him with games, and often with foolish stories. Instead of all this, we must know how to call to the man which lies dormant within the soul of the child.”

— Maria Montessori

BIRTHDAYS:

1619 Charles Le Brun, French classical painter who helped establish the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, born in Paris.

1786 Wilhelm Grimm, one of the Brothers Grimm, along with his older brother Jacob Grimm, authors of the famous collection “Grimm’s Fairy Tales”, first published in 1812 with 86 stories.

1836 Winslow Homer, American painter.

1841 John Philip Holland, Irish marine engineer who developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the US Navy, USS Holland (SS-1) and the first Royal Navy submarine, Holland 1.

1842 Arrigo Boito, Italian librettist, composer, poet and critic whose only completed opera was Mefistofele.”Ave Signor!” aria from Boito’s “Mefistofele”.

1955 Steve Jobs, American businessman, co-inventor, and investor. A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, Jobs co-founded Apple Inc. (as Apple Computer Company) with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne in 1976.

MISCELLANEOUS:

I WAS HOME SCHOOLED AND MY MOM DID AN AMAZING JOB ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. Homeschooling Isn’t for Everyone

BEFORE THE NEXT LOCK DOWN (INCLUDING VIOLATING FREE SPEECH AND THE FREEDOM TO ASSEMBLE), THE AUTHORITIES SHOULD BE OBLIGATED TO READ THE FOLLOWING: