Articles dated November 2014

How Does Classical Education Integrate with a Christian Education?
by Leigh
Wednesday, 19 November, 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, 19 November, 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)
As Christian educators, we are interested in raising wise, virtuous children who pursue truth; specifically, The Truth, who is a person named Jesus Christ. We do not want our children to fall for fallacious reasoning or unsupported research or philosophies firmly...

Challenge: The Moment You've Waited For
by Jennifer
Tuesday, 18 November, 2014
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Tuesday, 18 November, 2014
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten...

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 EquivocationIs 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...

What Our Children Are Learning in Challenge Class
by Matt
Friday, 14 November, 2014
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, 14 November, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
So you have a child in Challenge class and you aren’t sure exactly what’s going on there. You know they are reading a lot of books, studying Latin, and learning math, science, and history. You wonder, though, “What exactly are they doing during class?”
Perhaps you don’...

The Truth about Thanksgiving
by Courtney
Thursday, 13 November, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
Thursday, 13 November, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
Revisiting Some Archived Articles that Have Not Been Lost, but May Have Been Forgotten and Are Worth a Fresh Read
The Truth about Thanksgivingby Courtney Sanford
Thanksgiving has come to mean parades of fanciful floats, gourmet feasts, and football, but amidst all of...