BOOKS

"A house without books is like a room without windows"

Heinrich Mann

"A book is like a garden carried in the pocket"

Chinese Proverb

HAPPY EASTER: WHY EGGS, RABBITS AND HARES??????

Taken from Wikipedia

Rabbits and hares

The hare was a popular motif in medieval church art. In ancient times it was widely believed (as by Pliny, Plutarch, Philostratus and Aelian) that the hare was hermaphrodite.^[5][6][7] The idea that a hare could reproduce without loss of virginity led to an association with the Virgin Mary, with hares sometimes occurring in illuminated manuscripts and Northern European paintings of the Virgin and Christ Child. It may also have been associated with the Holy Trinity, as in the three hares motif,^[5][8] representing the "One in Three and Three in One" of which the triangle or three interlocking shapes such as rings are common symbols. In England, this motif usually appears in a prominent place in the church, such as the central rib of the chancel roof, or on a central rib of the nave. This suggests that the symbol held significance to the church, and casts doubt on the theory that they may have been masons' or carpenters' signature marks.^[9]
Eggs, like rabbits and hares, are fertility symbols of antiquity. Since birds lay eggs and rabbits and hares give birth to large litters in the early spring, these became symbols of the rising fertility of the earth at the Vernal Equinox.^{[citation needed]}
Rabbits and hares are both prolific breeders. Female hares can conceive a second litter of offspring while still pregnant with the first.^[10] This phenomenon is known as superfetation. Lagomorphs mature sexually at an early age and can give birth to several litters a year (hence the saying, "to breed like bunnies"). It is therefore not surprising that rabbits and hares should become fertility symbols, or that their springtime mating antics should enter into Easter folklore.

Eggs

Main articles: Easter egg and Egg decorating

The precise origin of the ancient custom of decorating eggs is not known, although evidently the blooming of many flowers in spring coincides with the use of the fertility symbol of eggs—and eggs boiled with some flowers change their color, bringing the spring into the homes. Many Christians of the Eastern Orthodox Church to this day typically dye their Easter eggs red,^[11] the color of blood, in recognition of the blood of the sacrificed Christ (and, of the renewal of life in springtime). Some also use the color green, in honor of the new foliage emerging after the long dead time of winter.
German Protestants wanted to retain the Catholic custom of eating colored eggs for Easter, but did not want to introduce their children to the Catholic rite of fasting. Eggs were forbidden to Catholics during the fast of Lent, which was the reason for the abundance of eggs at Easter time.^[12]
The idea of an egg-laying bunny came to the U.S. in the 18th century. German immigrants in the Pennsylvania Dutch area told their children about the "Osterhase" (sometimes spelled "Oschter Haws"^[13]).^[14] "Hase" means "hare", not rabbit, and in Northwest European folklore the "Easter Bunny" indeed is a hare, not a rabbit. According to the legend, only good children received gifts of colored eggs in the nests that they made in their caps and bonnets before Easter.^[15] In 1835, Jakob Grimm wrote of long-standing similar myths in Germany itself. Grimm suggested that these derived from legends of the reconstructed continental Germanic goddess *Ostara.^[16]

"TRULY TRUE"

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost always a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.

Horace Mann

MORE SCHOOL MEMORIES!!

I still remember the VICTORIA ROAD RAP from Hotline... Nooooooooooooooooo!!!!

Michael Vince and his book worked as a kind of Messiah and a Bible even during my Teaching training college period.

These two books from the Meridian Plus series were my last books at sesondary school. I remember the "Cooking with Carol" reading!!!!!

WORLD DOWN SYNDROME DAY

 We all MUST learn from them...

I got someone who I learn from everyday: MY SISTER, DIANA... I'm proud of sharing my life with this marvellous little person. I love you, "Gorda"!!!!!

DIGITAL NATIVES

 

Añadir leyenda

MORE SCHOOL MEMORIES

These were my first English books. PROJECT 1 was my first book at secondary school. At those times, English was not a subject at primary but only at secondary (at least in state schools) and we attended it only from 2nd year onwards. This cover is from the workbook, the student's book had a rocket, a space shuttle or something of the sort on its cover.

When I started attending an English course at an institute, my first book was BLUEPRINT 1. It was amazing for me! I loved it and I still keep it in my bookshelf as well as PROJECT 1.

SCHOOL MEMORIES

Surfing the web I've found a pic of the cover of my first school book!! "Mi amigo Gregorio" by Editorial Estrada. It was lovely! and it brought such nice memories to my mind...

Good Start!!!

WISHING ALL OF YOU STRENGTH AND LUCK IN THE YEAR OF THE DRAGON