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Sequence 23, o man peor>.le, suggests the more complicatecJ, se simplicity actually plex t~an a complf. plicatecf Idea or a et… |
Sequence 24particular case, the teacher was talking about the invasion of China by Genghis Khan in 1213 and how Genghis Khan moved down… |
Sequence 25attention, this psychic energy, lead to complexity in a psychological sense? What's a complex person? If we follow the… |
Sequence 26the stars, and she couldn't sleep all night, she was so mesmerized by the immensity that opened up in front of her that… |
Sequence 27environment? He develops a very interesting argument about the kind of learning that you can have when you are interacting… |
Sequence 28for individual development. Complex families expect a lot from children; they give opportunities for children to develop their… |
Sequence 29good because they didn't have the interest. So if the parents just provide routine opportunities without knowing what… |
Sequence 30is because children will enjoy and live more fully and fulfill their potentials. But also because they are more likely to… |
Sequence 1PART III PREPARING FOR ERDKINDER Therefore work on the land is an introduction both to nature and to civilization and gives… |
Sequence 2236 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 23, No. 1 • Winter 1998 |
Sequence 3THE ORIGINS OF AGRARIANISM AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SELF by Victor Davis Hanson Professor Hanson locates the origins of… |
Sequence 4tion of agrarianism, I will try to suggest to you, is tied to Western culture. In other words, Western culture would not have… |
Sequence 5culture, not because it failed, but because it succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. In other words, using the old Platonic… |
Sequence 6exploitation somewhat irrelevant. If it costs just $3 to rent a Pocahontas video, do you really care if Michael Eisner made $… |
Sequence 7What happened? What made this unique culture? I've argued, and I think I can make the argument very briefly this morning… |
Sequence 8corporate agriculture-farm owners don't want to live where they farm because it's boring, it's dirty; they… |
Sequence 9Diversification also allows you to regiment the work year so that workers-your family or your hired laborers, in the case of… |
Sequence 10want to use that word superiority, but Greek military prowess surely is a sign of cultural dynamism. In addition, diversified… |
Sequence 11them first to get the tangent taste out, and then you press them into olive oil. As for barley or wheat, you have to cut it… |
Sequence 12Let me now tum to the last part of my morning lecture: the cultural ramifications of this economic Renaissance. Farmers were… |
Sequence 13for the poor as well. Pericles reminded the Athenians, "We have no objection against the poor as long as they're… |
Sequence 14wore-that they would be absolutely formidable and terrifying against foreigners. Herodotus says that when the Persians met… |
Sequence 15What happened to it, then? Classical Greek culture of the city- state exists from about 700 to 300 BC, and then it starts to… |
Sequence 16digms of exclusion-not unlike modern America. The Hellenistic period is a wide-open period similar to our own, where money… |
Sequence 17to you is that the traditional paradigm of explaining Western culture to students, that is, the multicultural approach, I find… |
Sequence 18know it today will be destroyed or saved because of the West- maybe destroyed in the rain forest and maybe destroyed in… |
Sequence 19most ridiculed people in Greek literature because they smell, they're cranky, they have coarse language. But all… |
Sequence 20own culture. We're better people than that"-not to say, "Oh, don't do that. We've got to go… |
Sequence 21quite accurate analysis. I think we all have to realize that farms like mine are being destroyed in California. All of my… |
Sequence 1EMERGING PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF f ARM LIFE by Victor Davis Hanson with a response by Larry Schaefer Small-scale… |
Sequence 2And I said, "What do you mean?" And he said, "Well, you've got this Wal-Mart." Well… |
Sequence 3He said, "This is just terrible." I said, "Yeah, democracy can be a terrible thing." He… |
Sequence 4Mart doesn't care. All they care about is that you have 59 cents in your pocket, and you're the same as a person… |
Sequence 5var, and you mix the two and combine the best of human and natural possibilities. I'll give you an example of what I… |
Sequence 6told by the local EPA that he had some type of wild rat colony on his farm. The man was farming his land, and he had to cease… |
Sequence 7rational thought, philosophical systems, a sense of Western culture- are all absent there, replaced by a therapeutic… |
Sequence 8I thought, "Oh, this is stupid." Then they said, "What are you going to do with these coyotes?… |
Sequence 9that skepticism to everything-like Bill Clinton's talk. Everybody thought it was a wonderful talk, but it was a God-… |
Sequence 10I said, "That's just a law. It's a canon. You can't escape it. It's always going to be true.… |
Sequence 11After he died, I thought, "Well, you can fumigate. That will kill the gumnosis. You can get a new root stock. That… |
Sequence 12technology offered? But our family got together and said, "It's just like that orchard out there. There's… |
Sequence 13Oeconomicus-that one person can take a piece of ground and do something with it and another person simply can't. Believe… |
Sequence 14guilt. When you do something wrong now, no one is supposed to know about it. If you go into the Selma high school and you… |
Sequence 15great co-ops: Sun-Maid raisin growers is a good example, though it is a cooperative that I think many years ago sold out its… |
Sequence 16the spectrum. On the small end-20- and 30- and 40-acre farms-we see a person who inherits a farm and finds out that if raisins… |
Sequence 17who is still farming, they eventually have to come to you to ship their fruit back east and you can charge them at each stage… |
Sequence 18have to go down to Chile to find that. The answer, then, that I am suggesting is again the material appetite-the reason why… |
Sequence 19One of the things that is producing this tumult, the first, is why did I agree to do this? At first I imagined, if Maria… |
Sequence 20enlarge on her comments on the study of history and the develop- ment of civilizations so that the story of the Greek polis as… |
Sequence 21Then I think that maybe ow young people, if they had to face the realities of farm life, would not think that everything is… |
Sequence 22these pockets-I don't see the answer necessarily as sweeping the country. But I think that the purpose of agrarianism and… |
Sequence 23on the Left. Most of the hypocrisy that I see is on the Left, an affluent, very, very affluent liberalism that will not live… |
Sequence 24related but are slightly different, which we might term survival or entrepre- neurial. A: Absolutely. As I said I've… |
Sequence 25of terrain and climate. That land has an intrinsic value in itself, absolutely. It's wilderness. My only caveat was that… |
Sequence 26that's been traditionally called the family farm, because those people will not be living on that land. They won't… |
Sequence 27So you've created a hierarchy. You're judgmental. You have certain values that you think are better. Well, the same… |
Sequence 1Jim Ewert-Kroeker, Emily Starr Eden, David Kahn, and Debra Hershey-Guren 284 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 23, No. 1 • Winter 1998 |
Sequence 2ERDKINDER UNDER CONSTRUCTION: WHAT THE FARM SCHOOLS SHOWED Us by David Kahn Mr. Kahn is directing a project to start a farm… |
Sequence 320 years, have lacked any governing standard, any consensus of design, and any documentation. To help build the needed… |
Sequence 4Erdkinder Under Construction Team of community experts including architects, farmers, landscape designers, naturalists,… |
Sequence 5Figure 1 suggests that the vision and understanding of Erdkinder must come through a variety of pathways, beginning with… |
Sequence 6Montessori tells us that the adolescent wants to experience roles in society outside of the family. In order to create… |
Sequence 7Its principal feature never changes. It is "application to work." An interesting piece of work, freely… |
Sequence 8The Farm School, Athol, MA Founded in 1989, The Farm School supports programs for three to five days; it builds its depth on… |
Sequence 9The lodge is simple, with main dining area and surrounding dorms, which serve as girls' and boys' bunk areas.… |
Sequence 10of the institution is the development of values, self-knowledge, harmonious relations, and a balance between the needs of the… |
Sequence 11contention. Staff duties include student "parenting," academics, and participating in the daily living… |
Sequence 12basis or as part of the school's overall work-study requirement. The school operates on a trimester calendar. The… |
Sequence 13academic year: apple cidering, sugar bush processing including candy and baking, wreath making, etc. • Richard has found… |
Sequence 14supports over 500 acres. The farm manager appoints a student barn manager. Pete looks to independence as his main goal He… |
Sequence 15The focus of the Land Use Program is on life. In science classrooms and in the outdoors, students study what is known and… |
Sequence 16much space would be needed in the garden assuming mini- mum distance between the rows? • Set up a schedule of planting. •… |
Sequence 17A particular feature of Putney is the diversity of dorm space. The campus houses students in very individual dorm settings,… |
Sequence 18• The amount of student participation in the development of the new dorm triggered a response in me that the children should… |
Sequence 19the farmers' community network; life and death; and farm animals. "Working piques their interest." She… |
Sequence 20Wendell Berry, Annie Dillard, et al. She also spoke of "Philosophy from Scratch," a simple idea about… |
Sequence 21• The Mountain School's dilemma of meeting the academic de- mands of the highest level of secondary education seems to… |
Sequence 22tions sounded rather ideal. Children live in one of five "houses" which in effect are lavish dorms… |
Sequence 23work is required by neither the job schedule nor the academic program, so he often finds himself without kids, working alone… |
Sequence 24providing short-term boarding experiences (several days to several weeks) for their students, accompanied by their teachers.… |
Sequence 25HYPOTHETICAL SPACE ALLOCATION FOR HERSHEY FARM COMMONS Computers & Library 800 sq n LIVING SPACE Dining&… |
Sequence 26commons should not loom large in the landscape; thus the slope would serve also to conceal the size of the building. Like the… |
Sequence 27The Hannover Principles Copyright, 1992, William McDonough Architects 1. Insist on rights of humanity and nature to co-exist… |
Sequence 28potential classroom spaces could provide for double-track use of the property: Day visitors could use the classroom while… |
Sequence 29The expected pattern of facility use is projected conservatively as follows: September October November December January… |
Sequence 30informed belief in human progress and an understanding of the balance of nature and super-nature-that is, an overview of the… |
Sequence 31Bird's-Eye View of Land-Based Curriculum Literature •Philosophy •Memoirs •Fiction •History of land Figure 4 Ecology… |
Sequence 32The ecology program enables agriculture to be placed into an interdisciplinary perspective as suggested by this excerpt from… |
Sequence 33The implicit value of farming is self- sufficiency, not "cash cropping: The value of giving soltlething back to the… |
Sequence 34information about the land, including scientific and historical infor- mation, and, of course, changes in the landscape. This… |
Sequence 35,h ... work with th&. land is the birthright of every child. ~ .1' "'' ;(! and/ or… |
Sequence 36by the bulb chart). This transformation of the Montessori vision is aided by the introduction of Erdkinder. Thus the planes… |
Sequence 37But more than a vital link in the developmental continuum, Erdkinder needs to be also linked with the story of life on earth… |
Sequence 38Grazzini, C. (1996). The four planes of development. The NAMTA Journal, 21(2), 208-241. Kahn, D. (1997a). Normalization and… |
Sequence 1DIGGING DOWN DEEP: EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES WITH THE EARTH IN A GARDENING/FARMING CONTEXT by Emily Starr Eden Emily Eden… |
Sequence 2to leave the setting of their school behind for an experience on a farm. Set on a mountain top and a tract of forest land, the… |
Sequence 3graduate students who will become practicing farmers. Montessori herself also makes the distinction that Erdkinder students… |
Sequence 4ECOLOGY AND THE FARM With the advent of environmentalisJ:!l, there began in the late 1960s an emphasis on ecology. The farm… |
Sequence 5the pumpkins are marketed to the public and the study of economics flourishes. Another example of an interdisciplinary… |
Sequence 6harvest the vegetable garden, preserve and freeze produce, plant winter crops in the greenhouse, and make apple cider. In the… |