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Education points the way to growth, and growth points the way to happiness.
Lady DaVinci's Salon
Welcome to Lady DaVinci's Salon, a library dedicated to using free, internet sources to pursue whole-person education and self-motivated improvement. Never before in history has a complete education been so readily available to almost anyone who has the passion to pursue it. Today, thanks to the internet and to those who dedicate themselves to scanning and posting cultural works of all kinds, anyone can become what was once known as a "Renaissance Man" (or woman) if they have access to a computer and a telephone line.
Every week we feature new literary and educational sources on a wide variety of topics. All of these are fully available online at no cost. This week's featured topic: Child Development.
| Featured Article from Lady DaVinci's Salon: The Homework Debate How can parents best help their children learn? Is more homework the answer? |
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Featured Online Book, Non-fiction: Murray and Brown Smith, both English educators, encouraged the needs of children for investigative play. Opposed to the day's common "sit-stillery" brand of Kindergarten, they advocated Friedrich Froebel's vision of early schools as "nurturing" places where children learn by activity and discovery. |
An ancient writing suggests, "Everything you do should be given your best effort," and Pearl S. Buck believed that, "to know how to do something well is to enjoy it." These are bits of wisdom hardly any of us can afford to disregard, especially now that the biological sciences are discovering how important an innate love of learning is for optimum mental and physical health. Here at LadyDaVinci.com the aim is to provide tools that will help you in your own best effort to enjoy a rich and fulfilling life through self-motivated education.
This website promises to evolve into a library unlike any other. We hope you will remember to check back occasionally to view our progress.
Most Sincerely,
Lady DaVinci
There's a nifty little trick you should know while surfing our site. Just double-click on any word in our pages, and our friends at Webster's Online Dictionaries will give you a little pop-up box with the appropriate definition. No doubt it's completely unnecessary, but it certainly is a fun feature...
Featured Article:
In Vino Veritas: It's a Drink to Your Health
| For centuries, wine has been considered an important part of a healthy diet. Finally, research is confirming the observation expressed by Petronius in his first-century work, The Satyricon: "Ah me, so wine lives longer than miserable man. So let us be merry. Wine is life." |
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