so proud to be a member from way back
of the ‘look it up club’
i was very shy and quiet
but once i learned to read
the world opened up to me
i ‘mastered’ the encyclopedia
and never stopped looking things up.
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“true merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.”
-edward wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
This is great!
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Thanks, sadje
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You’re welcome 😉
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Do kids today even know what an encyclopedia is? Thank goodness we have Google to answer all of our probing questions about life! Great post, Beth!
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Doubtful and yes, google is now it, but it helped me to find answers to things and i have a great love for that process. For my curious mind, it paved the way )
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In our early years, they were the place of so many answers at a time with so many questions. A fond memory for me also!
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yes-
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Well done Beth… 🙂 You are amazing …. ❤
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aww –
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This is great, well done!
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thank you!
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I know you did like I did and read the encyclopedia.
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i did, indeed
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I’ve always done this, too. I wish more people would look things up instead of spreading misinformation.
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at least make an attempt, and look to more than one source
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a beautiful post, Beth and a wonderful quote; so true 🙂 I’m about to hit the sack and it’s a lovely thought to go to sleep on 🙂
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ty –
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I was writing in my journal last night while my computer was rebooting with a new update. I needed a word check, so I reached for the Webster. A little slower, I think, but boy did it feel good to hold that book in my hands.
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i know, i kind of like it. when i’m tutoring older children, i always pull out a dictionary for them to try to use, and they are quite amused by it
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It’s good to teach skills that don’t require electricity. It lights the imagination and who knows what those generations will have to deal with.
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it’s a great paradigm shift
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LOVED these childhood merit awards! What a good memory:)
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isn’t it funny, and I remember being so proud. I’m currently organizing and going through all of my old stuff and it all came flooding back )
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I got the impression from a couple of your recent posts, like your old music book, that you’ve been doing some cleaning and organizing!
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yep, going all the way back! look out for more in the future from the past )
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looking forward to your going backward…
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That’s always the best!
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Belated, but sincere, congratulations.
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Congratulations! It’s quite an honor.
I have a cousin who read the entire World Book Encyclopedia when he was in the bathroom. I think he finished it in about a year and a half.
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that is amazing and such a great story
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I love this – what a great recognition, Beth 🙂 We had a set of World Book Encyclopedias growing up – so easy to look things up in, although I guess Google is easier now. Still, if we had them, I might still go to them!
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Right!)
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All of the world’s knowledge and wonder is waiting to be discovered – all you have to do is “look it up!”
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Exactly, and I know you like to look things up too. That’s where we get all that great info on your posts
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Congratulations. The ending how you wrote on merit and river is so true. So beautifully written
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Thank you
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I loved this piece. When my kids were in school, they would be closing their report and I’d still be in the encyclopedia “looking something up” to help. Old habits die slowly.
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i so get that –
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You are a great looker upper. And a great sharer of discoveries.
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I finally found a club that would have me )
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I bet there are more clubs 😉
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Cool Beth. Well done.
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You have to take your awards as they come -)
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Love this, Beth!
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Thanks, Becky
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Look it up! That’s sound advice to any journalist hoping to verify their facts.
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Yes!
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Love this, Beth 🙂
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thank you
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I love this, Beth!
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thanks, Jennie. more proof that the things that might seem little at the time, with young ones, may impact them forever. I know it from both sides, as do you –
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Yes, indeed!
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I, too, spent hours with my nose in the World Book Encyclopedia volumes at my house. Or in my parents’ stacks of National Geographic Magazines. Now, for the same reasons, I spend hours a day on my laptop.
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Yes
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Wonderful and a great memory! Now it’s Google that we run to. 🙂
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Yes!
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Good for you! And what a great quote.
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Thanks!
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I loved my encyclopedias and had several sets for my children until they became so outdated on so much of the information. I keep several dictionaries and thesaurus’ for reference. The hold the house down with their volume size. The sad part is I can’t make the print bigger so I always have to ask for help reading them. Google, has lots of answers and I can and do make the print quite large to see it by myself. Same with my e-books. I love hard copies to share but I read them from my reader so I can make the print LARGE! 🙂 My favorite posts are those where I have to research information.
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yes, I so get that
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That’s awesome. Congratulations. I don’t think encyclopedias are used so often anymore. 😢
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It was when I was a little girl, and I’m not sure they’re even around, but they inspired me back then
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Same!
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Nice one
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Thanks!
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