Weekend links

• Meet our contributors: Kari Patterson @ Sacred Mundane (Kari writes beautifully about faith and the beauty found in the ordinary at her online home. Also check out her heartfelt ebooks.)
• Free Martin & Sylvia story for summertime :: Sparkle Stories
• July Nature Notebook :: Hope with Feathers
• Beethoven Who? Family Fun with Music Curriculum available for free download :: Educents
• Unschooling :: A Thomas Jefferson Education

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“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don’t know how to be submissive, and so on — because they’re dysfunctional to the institutions.” ~ Noam Chomsky