January 6, 2009

This is from Christopher White, who linked us to it in one of his comments. Very funny.

I suppose it’s obvious by the fact that we ask Laura to speak at pretty well all our conferences that we are fans of her work. I stumbled across this interview from 2001 in which she describes the development of her book Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum, which we would highly recommend for anybody home

I am an Arkansan by birth and currently live in Mississippi. Due to my Southern upbringing, I have always been surrounded by analogies, similes and metaphors. I have always loved colorful phrases such as “like an old dog looking at a new gate,” used to description a facial expression, or “I haven’t seen you in