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The written word can be a magic carpet that takes us to another world, another time. The landscape is often strange and unfamiliar, and may be fictional or allegorical. When we read the best writers, the journey gives us a glimpse into the minds of the world’s greatest thinkers...
Read the Full ArticleLast week, I had the pleasure of doing a conversational Latin camp online. While studying for the camp, I found out so much that I had forgotten or did not know about conversational Latin. Conversational Latin is different from the Latin we study in academic situations: it is the...
Read the Full ArticleSona Si Latine Loqueris! We are living in the midst of a modern day renaissance of the Latin language. There is a Latin-learning bandwagon, and if it wasn’t started by classical education, it was certainly popularized by it. Yet, there are holdouts to learning Latin even from within the...
Read the Full ArticleGreat book for all teachers and principals, new and experienced! The Core by Leigh Bortins will help you reach the educational goals for your students that we all desire. This easy-to-understand guide breaks down the time-tested methods of a quality education into clear goals and lessons that are easy to implement....
Read the Full ArticleThe popular science press may be on the cutting edge for bringing us the latest and greatest news from laboratories around the world, but when it comes to integrating historical and philosophical ideas into our modern conversations, it is woefully shallow. Of particular note is the venom afforded to...
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Not only will Essentials get a beautiful new guide and two new Trivium Tables for this fall, classes will also go Family Style. As the Essentials programs grew, and communities had more students than they could fit in one room, we began dividing the classes by age. Why? Well, we...
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The answer is not just that it looks good on a college application. Although that is a benefit, the principal reasons are much more important. I have heard people expressing nervousness concerning upper levels of Challenge and Latin. I love all facets of Latin, but reading authentic Latin literature written...
Read the Full ArticleBefore we begin to explore what this famous verse taken from the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 6 might have to say to us with regards to our interest in classical Christian liberal arts, let us firstly explore what this does not say. Many of the very things...
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History has been full of great conversations—classical conversations, some of which continue on today and in which we are still participating. According to Leigh Bortins, founder of the homeschooling community and curriculum provider Classical Conversations, one of those conversations, however, has remained largely silent—at least in the public realm....
Read the Full ArticleWhat should homeschoolers read during the summer? You asked for it, so we are providing it! None of these books are required to be read in the summer, but if you want to get a head start on the next year this is the perfect place to start. Hope...
Read the Full ArticleA man once described—I’m sure it was that guy we call St. Augustine—the world as being made up of two cities: the City of God and the City of Man. I’ve taught my children that the City of God is made up of people who belong to God and...
Read the Full ArticleIn How to Write a Sentence Stanley Fish quotes this opening sentence from Laurence Sterne’s ”novel” Tristram Shandy: I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me;...
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