Tag: Montaigne

La Belle Sauvage #BookofDust #review and my #reading in October

Posted by | Published on October 29, 2017

“But the meaning of a book is never just what the author thinks it is. It’s a great mistake to rely on the author to […] 

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How to live

Posted by | Published on December 10, 2011

‘Montaigne liked to present himself as an ordinary man, distinguished from others only by his habit of writing things down’. I am halfway through Montaigne’s essays  and […] 

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  You may have read these musings about hashtags and citizenship after the #LondonRiots. This post is a brief reflective piece about a series of lessons with classes and Professional […] 

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