Articles tagged Classical Education

Classical Education and the Artsy Kid
by Admin
Tuesday, 27 November, 2018
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Tuesday, 27 November, 2018
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
by Elizabeth Morales
“Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.”
~Rabindranath Tagore
The pursuit of classical education is to seek the good, the true, and the beautiful. I heard this saying all through my high school years in...

Is Musical Literacy Important?

by New Saint Andrews
Wednesday, 10 October, 2018
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
Wednesday, 10 October, 2018
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
There are few things quite so exhilarating as imparting the gifts of literacy, imagination, and creativity to the freshmen who take Foundations of Musical Skill with me. It opens the world for them to explore anything from Bach to the Beatles (but definitely not Bieber...

The Payoff is Coming!

by John
Tuesday, 21 August, 2018
categories: Classical Christian Education, College and Post Graduation, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Tuesday, 21 August, 2018
categories: Classical Christian Education, College and Post Graduation, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
My wife and I started homeschooling in earnest twenty years ago this month. Our fourth, and last, child graduated from Challenge IV in May. Classical Conversations didn’t come to our area until our oldest two children were already graduated; fortunately, they enjoyed a...

Help! I’m Starting Challenge II Without Foundations (or Challenge)!
by Admin
Thursday, 21 June, 2018
categories: Classical Christian Education, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Thursday, 21 June, 2018
categories: Classical Christian Education, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Though she had been homeschooled her whole life, Cassidy started her formal high school education with Challenge II, having no Foundations or any Challenge program at all! We asked her to share her experience…
Looking to start Challenge II was honestly a pretty scary...

Investing for Maximum Return

Do you know the difference between spending money and investing money? Turns out my Challenge I students needed some clarity at the end of this semester. While exploring the “lessons learned” during our Stock Market Project, one student emphatically declared, “I would...