Articles tagged Marc Hays
A Christian Curriculum: God's Word and God's World
by Marc
Wednesday, 20 January, 2016
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education
Wednesday, 20 January, 2016
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education
John Bunyan, the author of Pilgrim’s Progress, once said, “You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.” This seems obvious enough. It sounds like common sense, but Bunyan’s point is one that is often...
Plato Joins Classical Conversations
by Marc
Wednesday, 13 January, 2016
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Wednesday, 13 January, 2016
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Over the course of the 2015-2016 academic year, both the Challenge II and Challenge III programs will be incorporating an original work of Plato into each curriculum. Challenge II students will be reading the Gorgias dialogue, and Challenge III will be reading the Meno...
Consequences of Ideas: The What, the Why, and the How
by Marc
Thursday, 01 October, 2015
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Thursday, 01 October, 2015
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
A long time ago, on a peninsula far, far away, a handful of men began asking questions. These question-askers—these lovers of wisdom—realized that the simplest questions about common, everyday things and experiences could open doors to questions about all of reality....
Reconciling Math to Mankind
by Marc
Monday, 27 July, 2015
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Monday, 27 July, 2015
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Math—one of the most reviled “four-letter words” ever invented. In fact, I am surprised it made it through the editors into this article. However, this common revulsion need not be a common occurrence. Mathematics should be neither reprehensible nor detestable to any...
Classical Conversations Comes to the Rescue
by Marc
Friday, 12 June, 2015
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
Friday, 12 June, 2015
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
“Are you sure you want to drive this van all the way to Baton Rouge?” This is the question our mechanic asked us when we told him why we were repairing the alternator and rear air conditioning on our 2003 Chevy Venture minivan which showed nearly 230,000 miles on the...