“I have vigorously defended contextual learning in my book because I believe that it is the key to how we learn as well as to the delight we find in learning. Children learn to speak by hearing words used in context, not by memorizing their definitions or studying their...
Read the Full Article
Student Highlight: Jessica Stockton, Virginia 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...
Read the Full ArticleWhen teaching by the Trivium, we usually take the grammar for granted. While we must take the grammar of a subject for granted when we learn a new subject, sometimes we must also re-evaluate the grammar of what we have learned and develop a new one based on a better understanding...
Read the Full ArticleLife comes at you fast, they say. For me, it’s not just the speed, it’s the volume. My mind has to be engaged almost all the time. There is always something else to do. There is always something else to know, something else to use, something else to obey....
Read the Full ArticleEach 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 Article
How intensely are we adversely affected by our Marxist-saturated culture? Sadly, I believe that the Marxist mentality runs so deeply that we have nothing with which to compare any alternative. As a case-in-point, I propose that Marxism has even affected the way we view each other and ourselves and...
Read the Full Article
As an Essentials tutor, mothers often ask me, “Why do we have to teach so much grammar?” Many of us graduated from college without being able to define “object complement,” so why would we expect our fourth graders to do so? First and foremost, we’re preparing our children to...
Read the Full ArticleEach 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. This month’s Classical Conversations director spotlight...
Read the Full ArticleEach 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 ArticlePi Day March 14th, 2011 Fun links for today! Wikipedia: Pi CNN.com: Is Pi under attack? (link no longer available) MSNBC: Student recites 8,784 digits of Pi (link no longer available) Youtube: 8 year old recites 200 digits of Pi Pi Facts on Fact Retriever Classical Conversations does not...
Read the Full ArticleEach 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...
Read the Full Article