Quote #27.
Monday, July 4, 2011 at 09:00AM Happy Independence Day, everyone! Seems fitting that today's quote is:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. – US Declaration of Independence
Much as I love US history (and plan to start delving into that more with the boys in the coming year), I find myself quite thankful that our homeschooling path led us to study world history chronologically. Because of this, my boys have a more full appreciation for the US example. They know the alternatives that came before and why the above declaration was a significant shift. Learning about other countries first…about the evolution of thinking about government systems…has made them quite the patriots, moreso (I believe) than if we’d simply started with the US as so many schools do.
Today, then, I say thank you not only to the many service men and women who have and continue to protect the US and what it stands for, but also to the generations of people who suffered under tyranny such that other generations were eventually driven and able to take a stand.
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