Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind,
For those that here we see no more,
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.

Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.

Ring out the want, the care the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes,
But ring the fuller minstrel in.

Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease,
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.

Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkenss of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.

~Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A Thomas Jefferson Education

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I received this poem from Glenn Beck in my email today; as I read it,  I recalled the following quote from Helen Keller. “I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.” Our world is so upside down, my friend often reminds me that it is “a mad max world.”  Even knowing that our God is ruler, King…and still on the throne,  I often feel overwhelmed and helpless.  I feel as though I must do something…something to stop this downward slide.  Homeschooling is my contribution…but still I must do more. With the power of the Holy Spirit,  I can change the world simply by changing myself. May the Lord give us courage this year.  Courage to buck the culture and stand for  those things that are good and lovely and pure.  May we have the courage to continue homeschooling even though our friends have joined hands with the government  in order to raise and train their children.  May the Lord have mercy upon our America, and our families.  May He forgive our sins and heal our land.  God Bless you and many blessings this  New Year  ~Anne  Read more...

I received this list from Townhall Magazine and thought I’d share it here on Educators At Home. No doubt some of these titles are quite challenging for many of us….especially me…but if we read them the way that Mortimer Adler instructs us to in   How to Read a Book, perhaps we will have a measure of success with some of these titles.  As the main teacher in our family,  keeping myself reading and informed is a huge part of staying inspired and motivated.  My children benefit when I’m reading good books because my enthusiasm spills over to them.  When I read my Bible, my family benefits.  When I’m eating healthier, they also benefit and do the same.  If I read, I’m not quite as dull because I’m inspired to pass on whatever I’ve learned.  Perhaps if you’ve experienced the same in your family, you will find this list helpful.  Some of these titles, I’ve read in the past and others are on my bookshelves right now.  Please comment on this list if you would like,  and tell me what you have enjoyed reading in the past.  Blessings to you as you train and disciple your children and Happy New Year!  ~Anne

1.   The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek – Conservatives believe that individuals are best able to take care of themselves, and liberals believe that people need a government to take care of everyone.  Read more...

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Hello  Everyone!  If you have been trying to visit our site over the last week or so and received a message saying that it was not found here is why:  It’s a long story but I’ll try to make it brief.  About 9 months ago I moved Educators At Home to a new more robust server.  The person I was leasing the server from sold me a years worth of hosting which I paid for in advance.

Well,  last week the server went down and I thought  it had crashed and needed a reboot.  Well turns out that the person did not pay for the server and they shut us down.  I tried desperately to get the service reinstated, but this is where the story gets very convoluted. The person I purchased our hosting from was sub leasing from a company called “Wild West Hosting” who sub leases from a company in Chicago.  After hours and hours of tracing IP’s and hosting companies I was told that “because I wasn’t the original person who set up the account,  I could not get my data back because technically it did not belong to us.”  Unfortunately, all of our system backups were on the server and not local; big mistake.  I’ve been rebuilding the site from an old backup I had locally that was about 9 months old.  This has been a learning experience for me as  I’ve had to custom build MySQL database files to make the old backup compatible with the newest version of Word Press.  Read more...