The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. G. K. Chesterton - Melanie Reed
In a one room schoolhouse, you didn't pass on until you actually DID know it. You learned. And you also had the undivided attention of the teacher who had time to care and knew you through all the important transitions and lessons of your life. - Melanie Reed
A wonderful supportive article to the concept behind Faith, Hope, and Love International, Inc.http://fhlinternational.org/ : "A Mission Trip in Your Own Backyard" This article can be used to point folks to the opportunity for needed missions at home in your own neighborhoods. - Melanie Reed
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It was a busy day for picking up food for the next FHL Mobile Food Pantry. The Ford F150 full-size pick up truck that the Lord had provided worked hard today. I was hoping for a cargo trailer that someone had promised but it did not happen. However, one of the FHL volunteers made her van available so we can have just one trip to the food banks. - Melanie Reed
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'm often asked for the names of (e-)learning professionals - from both education and corporate learning - to follow on Twitter. Here is a growing list I've put together, together with other related professionals - in alphabetical order by Twitter username. If you know someone you think should be on the list, (i.e .someone with significant number of followers), email me. Thanks to all those who have submitted names to the list. (Jane Hart) - Melanie Reed
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It was indeed an iron curtain: a vast barrier made of barbed-wire fences, mine fields, exclusion zones, guard towers, heavily armed soldiers, and dogs. Although designed allegedly to keep the West out, it was in actuality a vast system of control to keep those under this tyranny in. On this occasion my task was to transit through Czechoslovakia into Poland to deliver my precious cargo of Bibles and books to a contact there. - Melanie Reed
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“Patriotism to one's country may now mean, more than it ever has, being willing to invest in it as a steward rather than a profiteer.”
patriotism to one's country may now mean, more than its ever has, being willing to let go of ego-centered ideas about country and consider the whole world ... and use the same steward concept that you so wisely advocate. - Gregory Lent
I agree. But just as one takes care of one's family first, and then those less fortunate outside of it, one must take care of the poor in one's own country first, before the rest of the world. The poor in this country are often overlooked because of the assumption that they are not really there. - Melanie Reed
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