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  • Hard News: Compromise,

    Who lives on awaiting recall, in France.

    Since Dec 2006 • 2471 posts Report

  • Speaker: To Smock is to Love,

    Oh God I mean Derek and Clive.

    Since Dec 2006 • 2471 posts Report

  • Speaker: To Smock is to Love,

    And Gauguin
    I never thought James Brown was cool (especialy not after Chas and Dave), but Miles was.

    Since Dec 2006 • 2471 posts Report

  • Yellow Peril: Are you gonna liberate us…,

    Post again, right now, don't think about it, first thing to pop in your head, dare ya!

    Since Dec 2006 • 2471 posts Report

  • Hard News: Compromise,

    Only if yo people talk to mo people first...
    The A.D. Hammer Law (After Damian)

    Since Dec 2006 • 2471 posts Report

  • Speaker: To Smock is to Love,

    R. I'm still getting over this,

    From 1743 to 1744, he was secretary to the French ambassador in Venice, whose republican government Rousseau would refer to often in his later political work. After this, he returned to Paris, where he befriended and lived with Thérèse Levasseur, a semi-literate seamstress who, according to Rousseau, bore him five children, though this number may not be accurate. All the children were deposited at a foundling hospital soon after birth and would most likely have perished soon afterwards, as the mortality rate for such children was very high. Rousseau's abandonment of his children became a source of embarrassment once he became known as a theorist of education and child-rearing, and was used by enemies including Voltaire to attack him. In his defense, Rousseau explained that he would have been a poor father, and, implausibly, that the children would have a better life at the foundling home.

    And this,

    Rousseau's ideas about education have profoundly influenced modern educational theory. In Émile he differentiates between healthy and "useless" crippled children. Only a healthy child can be the rewarding object of any educational work. He minimizes the importance of book-learning, and recommends that a child's emotions should be educated before his reason. He placed a special emphasis on learning by experience. John Darling's 1994 book Child-Centered Education and its Critics argues that the history of modern educational theory is a series of footnotes to Rousseau.

    I do not think I can like this man green eggs and ham.

    Since Dec 2006 • 2471 posts Report

  • Hard News: Compromise,

    It's got too much of an Auctioneer feel to it.

    Since Dec 2006 • 2471 posts Report

  • Island Life: Sorted for E's and Votes,

    What do you think she was walling, a wonder wall?

    Since Dec 2006 • 2471 posts Report

  • Speaker: To Smock is to Love,

    Yeah I know, I can't make an outrageous claim just once, just once...
    Lyndon have you the lyrics to your song?

    Since Dec 2006 • 2471 posts Report

  • Speaker: To Smock is to Love,

    Fellow PAS'ers I have all the bases loaded, my OCD has finally kicked in...

    Since Dec 2006 • 2471 posts Report

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