Articles tagged Wisdom
Pig Out on Good Food and Great Ideas
by Jennifer
Tuesday, 13 August, 2013
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
Tuesday, 13 August, 2013
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Homeschooling Life
Imagine a banquet hall with a long table staggering under the weight of varied foods. Imagine a night filled with music, laughter, and stories. Imagine reasoned discourse about the issues of the day and about the nature of man.
In the not too distant past, people...
How the Bible Taught Me to Study
by Matt
Thursday, 08 August, 2013
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14)
Thursday, 08 August, 2013
categories: Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14)
What do you think of when you hear the word ‘wisdom’? Do we want our children to grow up in wisdom? Do we want them to be wise as serpents and harmless as doves, even if that means they will be wiser than we are? I hope the answer to these questions is yes.
My son felt...
"Altared" States
Summer Practicum season is often the “pause that refreshes,” as Coca-Cola would say. Inspiration abounds from speakers keen to be God’s conduit for truth. Encouragement flows freely among those who have “been there” before—and survived a certain stage of the...
How to Rescue Knowledge from the Age of Information
I know a few things—not many, but a few. I know the texture of a pin oak tree’s bark. I know the form of the constellation known as the Big Dipper. These examples are simple, not philosophical or foundational, but they illustrate the difference between information,...
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...