Each Friday we will be spotlighting a member of Classical Conversations, the first Friday will be a homeschool graduate who attended CC’s Challenge program, the second Friday will be a current student, the third a state manager, and the fourth a community director. Want to share your Classical Conversations...
Read the Full ArticleThe recent budget cuts across the United States have forced colleges to cut teachers, while the football program coaches get millions of dollars in raises. This has caught the attention of Forbes in an article “Get Football out of our Universities.” Leigh Bortins, founder and CEO of Classical Conversations, Inc., often...
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“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding” (Proverbs 9:10, KJV). The question of how science relates to faith is one that seems to baffle many people, but this need not be so. This is a foundational issue, because the...
Read the Full ArticleThe deck is being shuffled in the Middle East. Only time will tell if the changes are positive or negative. With greater access to news and information, common folk can hear about events around the world. News traveled fast on December 17, 2010 when Mohammed Bouazizi of Tunisia doused...
Read the Full ArticleOne of the main criticisms that comes against classical education is its practicality in the real world. Dr. Hebbard addresses the issue that seeks to satisfy the critics as well as encourage the classical students by going beyond the surface of the assumption that a major is the best...
Read the Full ArticleA love of vocabulary might be the most important thing you ever give your kids. I can’t remember when the passion was instilled in me. My mother read to me every morning and every night, from books which were beautifully written and which often used words I had not...
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Foundations Directors may be breathing a sigh of relief over the completion of six weeks of children painting in the church building. While I, too, am glad we managed to retain favor with our host church by not tracking paint down the carpeted hall, I would enjoy talking about...
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I was the helper in my five-year-old daughter’s Foundations class this week when her tutor demonstrated Newton’s First Law of Motion with a tennis ball and a super bouncy ball–very high tech and expensive science equipment! First, she recited the law several times and asked the children to repeat...
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Through history, we see God’s unfolding plan for humanity. We learn about both the incredible triumphs and the failures of humankind. As American historian David McCullough wrote: “History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.” We...
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One of the easiest subjects to love is history. Events happened in order. Literature bringing those events to life is easy to find. Discussions about the people and events are fairly easy to negotiate…but what about Latin? Could I ever learn to love Latin? Yes! through Classical Conversations, your...
Read the Full ArticleAll conceptualization of abstract ideas is an important ingredient in loving to learn. Challenge III is conceptualization of abstract ideas. Therefore, Challenge III is an important ingredient in loving to learn. Whaaaaat? Could it be? Under strict logical analysis, as studied in Advanced Logic, the above is a categorical...
Read the Full ArticleRaise your hand if you had a course in geography in school. I suspect that very few of us would be able to raise a hand honestly. My own encounters with geography were spotty at best. I once made a map of the state of Oklahoma out of Jell-O...
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