I read another chunk of The Art of Teaching today, trying to keep up with my self-imposed schedule. 😉 The section on the appropriate use of humor in teaching was particularly good (Mystie wrote a post about it when she was reading the book), and I loved this quote:
Also read/listened to recently:
- Hubby: The Roots of American Order by Russell Kirk (’cause I was struggling to keep up with Miss A and he’s awesome like that 🙂 )
- Me: A Philosophy of Education by Charlotte Mason for our CM Study Group
- Miss A: The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
- Mr. D: Miss A’s novella Behind Her Mask was Death
- Mr. E: listening to By the Shores of Silver Lake again – he loves the Little House audiobooks!
- Little L: The Big Picture Story Bible
- Little R: Richard Scarry’s Cars and Trucks and Things That Go
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I loved that book! That’s the perfect quote to sum it up, too. In revisiting my 7 Laws of Teaching series, I realized that’s what it was missing, really. I loved how really human and friendly and real Highet’s style made the whole process.
I’d read and commented on Mystie’s post but I only just realised that the author of The Art of Teaching, Gilbert Highet, was married to one of my favourite authors – Helen McInnes, spy/espionage novelist.
I thought her name rang a bell! I’ll have to look up her books now that I know you enjoy them. 🙂