My approach to education would be like my approach to everything else. I’d change the standard. I would make the standard that of community health rather than the career of the student. You see, if you make the standard the health of the community, that would change everything. Once you begin to ask what would be the best thing for our community, what’s the best thing that we can do here for our community, you can’t rule out any kind of knowledge. You need to know everything you possibly can know. So, once you raise that standard of the health of the community, all the departmental walls fall down, because you can no longer feel that it’s safe not to know something. And then you begin to see that these supposedly discreet and separate disciplines, these “specializations,” aren’t separate at all, but are connected. And of course our mistakes, over and over again, show us what the connections are, or show us that connections exist.
- Wendell Berry
1. Basic animal husbandry
2. Composting
3. Gardening/farming
4. Canning and freezing
5. How to change the oil and tune up my car
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Speaking of gardening and farming, Mom made peach pies, peach freezer jam, and prepared peaches for freezing today. I picked some corn at an aunt and uncle's (they host our family garden). We have some tomatoes left on the plants at home, a few "wild" pumpkins beginning to turn orange out back, and possibly some watermelons growing in our compost pile/worm bed. (Needless to say, we haven't been stirring our compost pile.) I also harvested some seeds from our impatiens (flowers) in order for us to plant them next spring. I really enjoy nature!
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