Articles dated October 2014

Homeschoolers and College
by Matt
Thursday, 30 October, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
Thursday, 30 October, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
Revisiting Some Archived Articles that Have Not Been Lost, but May Have Been Forgotten and Are Worth a Fresh Read
On the first day, God created light and it was good. On the second day, God created the heavens between the separated waters, and together the light and...

Transforming the “Cram”—“Test”—“Dump” Model
by Jen
Wednesday, 29 October, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Wednesday, 29 October, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
When you set out to learn something new, it can be encouraging to realize that it is akin to something you have already mastered. There is something comforting about, say, beginning a new, complex recipe for éclair cake with chocolate ganache and finding at its core...

When Are You Ever Going to Grow Up?
by Marc
Tuesday, 28 October, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
Tuesday, 28 October, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
“...when I became a man, I put away childish things” (1 Corinthians 13:11, KJV).
For decades, American culture has been pushing the threshold between childhood and adulthood further and further from birth. This is being done in the name of science, which supposedly is...

American Government by Immersion
by Admin
Monday, 27 October, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
Monday, 27 October, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
American Government by Immersion
by Joel Grewe, Deputy Director of Generation Joshua
Not so long ago in a house not so far away:
“Dear, just turn off the TV! You know the more you watch FOX the higher your blood pressure is going to get!”
“Grrr! I will, but it just...

What Are We Afraid Of?
by Jennifer
Friday, 24 October, 2014
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)
Friday, 24 October, 2014
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)
Your spirit has been bruised by cowardice,
Which many a time so weighs a man's heart down
it turns him from a glorious enterprise--
as shadows fool the horse that shies away.
(Dante, Inferno, Canto II)
In this early scene from Dante’s Inferno, Vergil urges Dante to...