Articles tagged Imagination
Discovery
Nurture Your Soul – Summer Devotions Series
Discovery
by Cara McLauchlan
The only true voyage of discovery...would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another..."
-- Marcel Proust
No summer would be...
Thoughts on Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child
by Beth
Wednesday, 09 October, 2013
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
Wednesday, 09 October, 2013
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
In Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child, Anthony Esolen writes an "indispensable guide to overcoming today's treacherous trends in parenting and education—and the overwhelming banality of contemporary culture." Esolen's scope is broad, but my focus was...
Shakespeare’s Language and the Evolution of Human Intelligence
I was watching a bit of Brannagh’s Hamlet tonight and luxuriating in the language (some of which I understood) when my dear wife asked for my opinion: “Do you think the groundlings actually understood what was going on in those plays?”
I said I thought they did (that...
Are You a "Geek"?!
by Lisa
Wednesday, 12 June, 2013
categories: Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Homeschooling Life, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Wednesday, 12 June, 2013
categories: Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Homeschooling Life, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Are you a "geek"?! Do you just naturally like to learn? If you are a learner and a thinker, what made you that way? Are you born just knowing how to think, or is this a skill to be learned? Can a "lifelong learner" be created, and if so, what encourages one to remain a...
How to Raise a Hero (Four Important Activities to Do with Your Children this Summer)
In the light of current events, I am certain of one thing: we need heroes. As parents, we cannot allow fear to rule our lives; on the contrary, we should prepare our children to act nobly and to do the right thing in unusual circumstances, because one thing is certain...