What do honey and wine have to do with education?

Besides the obvious -- kids love honey and occasionally use sticky hands to complete their math worksheets, and we teachers tend to use wine as a coping mechanism -- another, more inspiring connection was made by a man named Alcuin who lived a long time ago.  He also talks about fruit and dazzling splendor... it's a pretty great quote.

So I wrote about it as a guest-poster on this homeschooling web site.  If any other moms/teachers out there need some fresh ideas and inspiration to get through this long season, come check it out: