Articles tagged read

Can Books Really Teach Us Anything? (Part Two)
by Jennifer
Tuesday, 16 July, 2013
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Tuesday, 16 July, 2013
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
In Part One of this article, we looked at two recent arguments in favor of letting children’s desires dictate what they read. This common contemporary argument is directly opposed to the idea of a classical, Christian education. While the aim of most contemporary...

Finding God in Shakespeare
by Jennifer
Monday, 14 February, 2011
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Monday, 14 February, 2011
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
"What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals - and yet, to me, what is the...

The Core Chapter 4: The Core of a Classical Education: Reading
by Jennifer
Wednesday, 15 September, 2010
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Homeschooling Life
Wednesday, 15 September, 2010
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Homeschooling Life
The Core Chapter 4: The Core of a Classical Education: Reading
by Jennifer Courtney
I hope this article finds you enjoying some good books and some pleasant fall weather. In Part 2 of our series on Leigh’s book The Core, we will look at teaching your children to read....