Articles by author: Brian Tonnell
Are All Men Equal? A Lesson in Logical Equivocation
by Brian
Monday, 17 November, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!
Monday, 17 November, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!
Are All Men Equal? A Lesson in Logical Equivocation
Is logic really relevant in today’s culture?
All men are equal. You have heard it touted by advocates on all flanks. In our Challenge B class, we have recently looked at current cultural issues that commonly use that...
Is It Possible to Integrate Even More?
by Brian
Wednesday, 10 September, 2014
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Wednesday, 10 September, 2014
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Integration. To some, it’s a dirty word. To others, it’s a beautiful thing.
God is the author of all subjects. If they are all authored by Him and all point to Him, then they must point to one another, as well. Your history discussions will quite naturally call to mind...
A Charge to the Graduate
by Brian
Monday, 25 August, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
Monday, 25 August, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
School is upon us (again)! Every year about this time, I get excited about what God is going to do in the lives of our children. Yet, at the same time, I get that queasy feeling in the pit of my stomach; the same feeling I used to get as a kid the night before school...
But I Did All the Hard Work!!
by Brian
Wednesday, 30 July, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Homeschooling Life, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Wednesday, 30 July, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Homeschooling Life, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
But I Did All the Hard Work!!
by Brian Tonnell
For months you have been trying to hammer into your child’s head the fact that completing the square requires dividing the middle term by two and then squaring it to find the third term. Over and over you practice with him...
Really? You Did That in Math Class?
Yes, we really did. Stay with me...
In 1995, Denis John Adams was convicted for sexual assault. The odds against him, regarding a DNA match, were one in 2,000,000. This meant that jurors were two million times more likely to observe the evidence if Adams were guilty...