Two Thoughts

An interesting article that brought two thoughts to mind.
(Hey! For me, two thoughts is twice as many as I usually have.)

No Child Left Behind? Ask the Gifted

"It's important to help the kids who are struggling," Ms. Clarenbach said, "but it's important to challenge the kids on the other end, too."

I had already found out that public schools concentrate on the LCD which is no help for a G&T child.
But this exemplifies homeschooling:

"For six months Ms. Braverman had been teaching her famous language arts unit on immigration (she's been doing it for 15 years). Grammar, spelling and composition had all been taught with an immigrant slant. From their Wonderful Wednesday Words, Catherine Rickman knew what an anarchist was and Amanda Cohen knew that German immigrants brought zithers to the New World."

We do that type of thing in less time, with no lobbying, and call it "Unit Studies".

...and Do the Right

Trust in God and Do the Right

Courage, brother! do not stumble,
Though thy path is dark as night;
There's a star to guide the humble--
Trust in God and do the right.

Let the road be long and dreary,
And its ending out of sight;
Foot it bravely--strong or weary,
Trust in God and do the right.

Perish "policy" and cunning,
Perish all that fears the light;
Whether losing, whether winning,
Trust in God and do the right.

Trust no party, trust no faction,
Trust no leaders in the fight;
But in every word and action
Trust in God and do the right.

Trust no forms of guilty passion,
Fiends can look like angels bright;
Trust no custom, school, or fashion,
Trust in God and do the right.

Some will hate thee, some will love thee,
Some will flatter, some will slight;
Turn from man, and look above thee,
Trust in God and do the right.

Simple rule and safest guiding,
Inward peace and inward light;
Star upon our path abiding,
TRUST IN GOD AND DO THE RIGHT.

by Norman Macleod, 1857.
They first appeared as a poem published in The Edinburgh Christian Magazine,
and were set to music to music by Arthur Sullivan in 1871.