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May 25, 2011

Homeschooling Summer Reading List 2011

What 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...

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May 17, 2011

Is Your Writing Organic or Rational?

In 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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May 16, 2011

The Beauty of Homeschooling

In the midst of our busy homeschooling lives, we can easily make the mistake of concentrating our attention on truth and goodness alone and neglecting the need for beauty in our educational efforts. John Mark Reynolds offers parents another approach in his seminar session titled “What Do Plato and...

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May 11, 2011

National Day of Prayer 2011

Today is the National Day of Prayer and it is important today to remember to pray for those homeschooling families who may not be as fortunate as many of ours in their legal freedoms and to keep them in our prayers along with our leaders, families and friends. John 15:5 (NIV):...

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Late Bloomers

At the end of my seventh grade year in public school, I was on the bubble for moving into the advanced math track, or staying with the average students. My mother was eager for me to move ahead with math and she intervened on my behalf. My math teacher’s...

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May 09, 2011

Latin Exams

I wish that this was the crux of my article, but it is not. Latin does do both of these things, but that could be discussed at a later time. This month, I would like to focus on exams your students may take in order to test their Latin/Roman...

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May 04, 2011

Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder

Matt Bianco, my colleague on this blog, has argued that beauty is absolute and objective – that it is not in the eye of the beholder, but, in the eye of God. This perspective is much needed in our age: Darwinist thinkers do not accept a standard of beauty (or,...

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Apr 28, 2011

Norms & Nobility: A Book Review

How often do we stop and truly ponder why we are pursuing classical, Christian education? The Bible tells us that “where there is no vision, the people perish” (Prov. 29:18, KJV). How often do we stop and renew our vision for our homeschool—the vision of classical, Christian education? David...

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Apr 26, 2011

Beauty is in the Eye of God

Among Christians, there is general agreement on the objective nature of truth:  a truth is true, whether you believe it or not. We like to hear our postmodern friends (who deny the existence of absolute truth) say, “There is no such thing as absolute truth,” because when they do,...

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