Articles dated October 2012

Fallacy Detective: Three Assumptions Made by “Lesser of Two Evils” Voters
So if you have not noticed, there is a presidential election again this year, and it is therefore a good time to hear more logical fallacies than usual in the media and in political conversations.
It seems there are a whole lot of Party P voters out there who do not...

A Homeschooler’s Experience at a Christian Liberal Arts College*
by Shawn
Monday, 29 October, 2012
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, College and Post Graduation, Homeschooling Life
Monday, 29 October, 2012
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, College and Post Graduation, Homeschooling Life
Emily R and her two brothers were homeschooled by their mother in South Minnesota. “We grew up in small town Minnesota, in the middle of the cornfields,” she says, emphasizing her rural upbringing. Her father traveled a lot with his job, but he had the flexibility to...

Christian, Know Thyself: Why It Is Important to Study Philosophy
by Kate
Friday, 26 October, 2012
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Friday, 26 October, 2012
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
γνῶθι σαυτόν: "gnothi sauton" or "know yourself" in ancient Greek.
Public building in Ludwigshafen, Germany.
See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world...

You Cannot Float Upstream
You never know what you are going to get when a dozen men take off for a weekend together in the name of Jesus, especially if their wives load the vehicles with gourmet meals, plus caffeine and sugar.
This is what some of the men from our church did last weekend. We...

Choosing to Be a Chicken Soup Homeschooler
When vats of hand sanitizer magically appear next to every handle, lever, and faucet accessible to the public, it can mean only one thing: cold and flu season has arrived. Despite my best efforts to avoid contamination, sometimes illness is unavoidable, especially if...