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Poem: Time, Real and Imaginary, By Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

On the wide level of a mountain’s head, 
(I knew not where, but ’twas some faery place) 
Their pinions, ostrich-like, for sails out-spread, 
Two lovely children run an endless race, 
A sister and a brother ! 
This far outstripp’d the other ; 
Yet ever runs she with reverted face, 
And looks and listens for the boy behind : 
For he, alas ! is blind ! 
O’er rough and smooth with even step he passed, 
And knows not whether he be first or last. 

Statement of the Whole: What role should a clock play in the life of a home school?  Jason and Steve admonish those who are teaching in the home to use scheduling only so much as it helps accomplish your goals, but enjoy the flexibility built into this choice of education.  The best moments in education are those timeless ones when the clock is forgotten and the counting of time is forgotten.  Join them in their quest for education outside the ringing of bells. 

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“Wonder acts upon a man like a shock, he is “moved” and “shaken”, and in the dislocation that succeeds all that he had taken for granted as being natural or self-evident loses its compact solidity and obviousness; he is literally dislocated and no longer knows where he is.” Josef Pieper 

“For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.” ― Aristotle, Metaphysics  

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