Articles dated August 2013

Truth or Consequences: On Practicality
It was twenty years ago this fall that I plunged wholeheartedly and somewhat heedlessly into Christian classical education when some comrades and I started Providence Academy in Green Bay, WI. Since then, I have been hearing repeatedly the very sensible call for a...

Mandala Fellowship Departs for Europe
by Barnabas
Wednesday, 28 August, 2013
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, College and Post Graduation, Homeschooling Life
Wednesday, 28 August, 2013
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, College and Post Graduation, Homeschooling Life
Here at Mandala Fellowship, we are all very excited about our Europe trip. Nobody is actually ready yet, so we are all looking forward to Tuesday with some trepidation. Mrs. Bortins has been working night and day to make sure we are all set for the trip. We leave on...

Life Lessons I Learned from Canning Tomatoes
by Kathy
Monday, 26 August, 2013
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Homeschooling Life, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Monday, 26 August, 2013
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Homeschooling Life, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
I was going to write a post about how to prepare for Latin for this school year, but then I realized that you could just read my article from last year to help you prepare (http://www.classicalconversations.com/easyblog/entry/preparing-for-next-years-latin-...

Heart Experience...Some Reflections
Another year has begun and, again, I am directing a Challenge program. I have tracked my seasons which have been positive, delightful, and always different. My current Challenge II group has already met twice and this week we completed our first biology experiment....

How Revolutions Affect the Way We Teach
Foundations parents and students will recognize what we call the “Age of Industry” from c. 1760—c. 1969.1 The Age of Industry “ushered in the factory production of goods with the development of…new technologies.”2 Among these technologies were the mechanization of...