Legal Stuff

I have been teaching for many years, and gathering ideas for lesson plans far before that. I cannot count the number of pieces of paper which litter my office, covered with scribbled ideas, quotations, diagrams, and so on. I never had any idea that I would build a business out of sharing my notes!

I would like to quote the following from the Acknowledgements page of Eric Fairman's Path of Discovery, Volume 1: Grade 1. I am deeply grateful to him for his eloquence in describing the situation in which I find myself now, one which is common to many teachers and homeschooling parents:

"Prior to the presentation of any lesson in a Waldorf school, the teacher is involved in much deep thought, preparation and meditation. It follows that as a preliminary, the teacher will be required to research and read as much as possible of what is written concerning the subject under consideration.

It was not my original intention to make the following entries in my 'Journal' available to anyone other than myself, and for that reason I failed to keep an accurate record of the books that I had read or referred to.... I frequently came across enlightening suggestions, ideas or phrases which I readily wrote down in my 'Journal' without recording the original source. Despite searching back through numerous works by various authors, I have not been able to attribute all the quotatations I have so freely used to their rightful owners.

If anyone does recognize a quotation as being of their own creation, I hope that they will accept my apologies for my not having acknowledged them as being the source. I would not wish it to be thought that I had plagiarised their valuable work and would appreciate notification of any such occurence so that I can give due acknowledgement to the author..."

I can correct any errors in attribution immediately, as all my documents are distribed in electronic form; if this is necessary, I am more than happy to do so and request that you please contact me.

Along the same lines, I ask that anyone using and distributing my work give credit verbally or in writing to the original author of an idea, whether it be me or another source quoted.

Thank you,
Rhoda McGrane