Articles dated February 2012

What Your Child Needs to Study Before the National Latin Exam Next Month
by Kathy
Thursday, 23 February, 2012
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Thursday, 23 February, 2012
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Last month, I had the pleasure of being interviewed on Leigh! @ Lunch concerning the National Latin Exam. Since there was so much interest in the information, I thought I should spend a little time discussing some of the things that need to be reviewed before your...

Why We Must Conquer Age Segregation
by Andrew
Wednesday, 22 February, 2012
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education
Wednesday, 22 February, 2012
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education
In the introduction to her book, The Core: Teaching Your Child the Foundations of Classical Education, Leigh Bortins makes a radical and disorienting statement that makes the book worth reading. She says, “This curriculum works for a student of any age, but that is a...

Classical Christian Thinking
One of the goals of classical Christian education is to train students to see relationships between ideas. This is an analytical skill as well as a philosophy. Everything that exists shares a common creator who is still active in His creation. It is our job as...

Classical Conversations Foundations Guide Spotlight
by Robert
Thursday, 09 February, 2012
categories: Articles, College and Post Graduation, Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11)
Thursday, 09 February, 2012
categories: Articles, College and Post Graduation, Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11)
Is it February already? What happened to January—did we skip it? I can’t believe I am almost four weeks into the semester. I have started working on my Faces in History paper for Essentials. I am going to be…wait a minute, I can’t tell you that…!
In other big news, we...

Echoing in Celebration with the Handiwork of God
by Kate
Monday, 06 February, 2012
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!
Monday, 06 February, 2012
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!
A Book Review of James Nickel's Mathematics: Is God Silent?
Mathematics: Is God Silent? is an investigation into the history and nature of mathematics, as well as an extensive study of the question of its ultimate source—that which gives mathematics all its meaning...