Articles tagged Marc Hays

Lessons Learned Last Year

by Marc
Monday, 04 May, 2015
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Homeschooling Life, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Monday, 04 May, 2015
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Homeschooling Life, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
All’s well that ends well? I hope so, because this academic year is ending very well, but that is not to say that the entire year has been smooth sailing. There have been some choppy seas on our Challenge II journey—even a couple of storms. After one such storm, we...

How Do I Get Ready for Next Year?

by Marc
Wednesday, 15 April, 2015
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)
Wednesday, 15 April, 2015
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)
Spring is in full bloom; April is quickly becoming history and May is soon to be upon us. Many Foundations programs are complete and for Challenge students the end is near. But…
As we breathe a well-earned sigh of relief, we must face the facts—the glorious facts—that...

Classical, Christian Cardboard Cutouts

by Marc
Friday, 03 April, 2015
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Homeschooling Life, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Friday, 03 April, 2015
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Homeschooling Life, Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
This article originally appeared on the blog Hays Haus.
We hope you enjoy reading it here.
As parents, we have the opportunity to instill countless habits, tendencies, or trajectories in our children’s lives. Some of these come naturally by virtue of the atmosphere of...

Doing Science Like Kepler

How do we “do science”? What tools has God given us to understand His creation? Where do we begin our search for knowledge? How do we know when we have arrived at truth? That’s a bunch of questions all at once, I know. Instead of giving you as many answers in a list, I...

Carpe Symphoniam

by Marc
Tuesday, 03 March, 2015
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
Tuesday, 03 March, 2015
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
Last year, I accompanied my Classical Conversations Challenge II students and their parents to the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville, Tennessee to hear the Nashville Symphony. The symphony orchestra performed three pieces by Mozart, one of which was his Piano...