Month: December 2023
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Phonics
One article briefly explaining the difference between true and false phonics. Blumenfeld’s Alpha Phonics is what I used to teach my kids. The article discusses concerns parents have about how children are taught to read in school, focusing on the distinction between phonics and sight vocabulary. While many teachers claim to teach phonics, the article…
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Empiricism vs. Rationalism
This paper presented at the 23rd Annual Nutritional Medicine Today Conference in 1994 discusses the conflict in therapeutics between Empirical and Rationalist philosophies in medicine. The author, a non-physician with a background in homeopathy, delves into the historical aspects of this conflict, which dates back to Roman and Greek times but was forgotten after the…
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Philokalia
The Philokalia is a collection of texts written between the fourth and the fifteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox Christian tradition. It was compiled in the eighteenth century by two Greek monks, St Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain of Athos (1749-1809) and St Makarios of Corinth (1731-1805), and was first published at Venice…