Hi
Spirituality for Kids seems to be closely associated with the Kabbalah Center.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbalah_Centre
Tony
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 4:35 PM, James Simmons <[email protected]> wrote:
Walter,
Several points in your digest got my attention. First, I like the Disreali
quote. I have just finished writing a novel and I learned more from doing
that than from every literature class I ever took. The funny thing is I had
been assigned to write short stories in high school, but my teachers never
told you how to go about it. I only learned the process from reading books
by Jack Woodford (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Woodford). I wish I had
those books in high school. They explain everything. A lot of well known
authors learned how to make stories and novels from those books, including
Ray Bradbury.
Second, I am also an admirer of Flavio Danesse. He has a website in Spanish
that is a great resource for a new Python programmer. I agree that IDEs are
probably something to avoid when learning to program, at least the more
complex ones. I learned C from Turbo C, which was not much more than an
editor with a compiler that let you click on a compile error and be taken to
the line in the editor that had the problem. Something like that is
worthwhile. Eric is pretty much just that for Python, plus syntax
highlighting. If you mess up the indenting it will tell you.
I have a niece at Thomas Jefferson High School that I tutored in Java
programming. Her books were written by her teachers and licensed using
Creative Commons, but apparently they weren't published anywhere. They
didn't use IDEs either. It was a tough class for some very bright kids.
Finally, the whole Spirituality For Kids thing. I suppose people have
different ideas on what Spirituality is. The website promotes astrology,
which I find kind of dubious. I got all my ideas about Spirituality from my
wasted youth in the Hare Krishna movement, so I was hoping for something
more like my own education. In the first lesson you'd learn how "You're not
that body!" and other lessons would include The Path Of Knowledge, The Path
Of Action, The Path Of Devotion, and so on. After the final lesson the
child would be given a bag full of Bhagavad Gitas and sent to the nearest
airport.
James Simmons
Maybe I haven't looked carefully enough, but I didn't see anything
about astrology. Thought it was pretty much a humanist approach.
-walter
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