The True, the Good, the Beautiful part 1 This morning I sat down to write a blog discussing the True, the Good, and the Beautiful. My thought was that we discuss these concepts so much in classical education circles. We … Continue reading
Category Archives: Classical Education
Curriculum Envy
Curriculum Envy You are set with your language arts curriculum, “Homeschool ABC for the Fantastically Ambitious Student” but then you attend your weekly co-op session, and you find that Suzie Q. Homeschooler is raving about this new spelling in a … Continue reading
The Beginnings of Summer Planning
There is something special about summer for those of us who educate. Summer not only marks a break from the normal routine, but for us who love teaching, it is a marvel of a time to review the year, think … Continue reading
The Purpose of Language?
Persuasion The term ‘persuasion’ can be loaded. When we try to persuade someone, our persuasion may be loaded with our agenda, with our goals, and with our opinions—and that is a danger. It is a danger because we are flawed human beings. We make mistakes in our beliefs, … Continue reading
Classical Ed ‘Lite’
This weekend I was talking to some folks about the different levels of rigor that may be employed in a classical education. Some were adamant that there is a lot of new ‘fad’ curriculum out there that calls itself classical … Continue reading
Preparing to Read the Great Books
Classical Writing’s recommended literature selections are now available on our website. But I have since received several emails about how to prepare for (as well as how to tackle) reading what we call “Great Books”. Well, let’s start by saying that every … Continue reading
Using Older Literature in Classical Education
Among those educators who honestly strive hard to teach kids to write well, who believe in punctuation, spelling, syntactical, and logical correctness, there are two schools of thought: 1. The correctness school: People in this school tend to prefer modern … Continue reading
Modern Minds vs. Minds of Antiquity
How do we think? …about ourselves, about our means of persuation, about what other people say and how they say it? We with our modern heritage think much about ‘self’, about how we come across, about “the real me”, and … Continue reading
About the meaning of words
This weekend I was musing over the word ‘nature’. It struck me that ‘nature’ has to be one of the most abused/over-used/confusing words in the Western languages. When we talk about a person’s ‘nature’, we may mean the essence of … Continue reading