Articles dated February 2017
Redemption and the Empress Cixi
by Rachel
Wednesday, 22 February, 2017
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
Wednesday, 22 February, 2017
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
Even she wasn’t quite sure why she hated it. Yet our generally peaceful relationship always soured when it came time to clip my daughter’s fingernails. From the time she was tiny, it had been a source of conflict and frustration for both of us. Her little fingers would...
Just 4 days remain to vote for National Memory Master finalists!
Voting for the National Memory Master competition is underway now until Sunday night. Dozens of Classical Conversations’ best and brightest students have created and recorded innovative recitations of American history facts in the first step of their quest to become...
From One Unprepared Student to Another
by Jen
Tuesday, 21 February, 2017
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, College and Post Graduation, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Homeschooling Life, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Tuesday, 21 February, 2017
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, College and Post Graduation, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Homeschooling Life, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
I have a confession to make. When life strikes with all its messy chaos, I’m a master of pretending to read things I haven’t read.
I plagiarized a literature paper in high school because of it.
I wrote an entire in-class essay quiz in graduate school based on a book I...
School Choice v. School Choice
By Robert Bortins,
Classical Conversations CEO
Choice. The Oxford Dictionary of the English Language defines it as “an act of selecting between two or more possibilities; the right, freedom or ability to choose.” America has always been a nation of choices: choices go...
The One-Room Schoolhouse: Nurturing Community in Your Home School
by Shelly
Tuesday, 14 February, 2017
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)
Tuesday, 14 February, 2017
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)
Messy and somewhat frustrating! This is how I would describe our early attempts at practicing a one-room schoolhouse style of learning.
I remember one Tuesday morning particularly. It was 9:00 a.m. and the six of us were in the school room. Math books were strewn...