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Musings about a Classical Education

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I want to share some thoughts about classical education, the idea of a classical education, its origins, and why this type of education seems to deliver the sort of rigor and mastery we wish our students to have. This summer, … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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To New Homeschoolers Part II

Reading and writing are the monarchs of learning. Classical education traditionally aimed at oral and written comprehension and expression. If you do not have command of your own language both to take in what others have expressed and to express … Continue reading

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To New Homeschoolers part I

What is a classical education? Can you buy it in a box? Can you find a simple three step formula on how to teach your kids classically? No. Why not? Because being educated classically is being educated to THINK, and … Continue reading

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