When you’re young, school is your job. When you’re even younger, play is your school and your job. I like to think I attended a highly acclaimed “school” and landed a top-notch “job.” As I’ve mentioned in articles before, my family was poor when I was a kid...
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Georgia – Tyler T., won the 2019 National Number Knockout (N2K) championship on May 1, including the $10,000 prize, and $2,000 for his mother and teacher, Janice, who accompanied him on the cruise. To the uninitiated ear, the answers sound like gibberish—faster than an auctioneer. But Tyler not only knows...
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by Jill Philbrick Godly principles abound in math! Do you have to know every single math equation in the whole wide world as individual pieces of knowledge? No! We learn the rules, we study the questions, and then we can approach any equation to apply the facts we have...
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I am the son of an artist. As is the case for many artists, creating artifacts rarely pays the bills, but teaching art does, hence, I am the son of an art teacher: an artist who taught his skills instead of plying his wares. Being the art teacher...
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The 2019 National Number Knockout (N2K) competition is gearing up to return to the high seas this May. Sixteen finalists from across the nation will compete for the title of 2019 N2K National Champion and a $10,000 cash prize onboard the Carnival cruise ship Victory on May 1. To...
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Before reading the following article, please read this sonnet out loud: Sonnet 18 By William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the...
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Southern Pines, North Carolina — National School Choice Week, Jan. 20-26, has rapidly become the world’s largest education-related public awareness effort. Sponsored by Homeschool Now USA, National School Choice Week has grown from 150 events in 2011 to over 32,000 in 2018, according to Andrew Campanella, president of National...
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Translated from Latin, memoria literally means “memory.” That seems simple enough, but what does it really mean as the fourth Canon of Rhetoric? The first three are Invention, Arrangement, and Elocution; the fifth is Presentation or Delivery. We practice the Five Canons of Rhetoric in the Classical Conversations Challenge...
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by Elizabeth Morales “Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.” ~Rabindranath Tagore The pursuit of classical education is to seek the good, the true, and the beautiful. I heard this saying all through my high school years in Classical Conversations. The...
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remember that life isn’t all about appearances. In fact, when God was picking out the next king of Israel back in 1 Samuel 16, he turned down all the best-looking candidates. He was more concerned with the state of their hearts...
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While we may not always have to worry about looking different, we are still called to be different in our beliefs and thoughts...
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There are few things quite so exhilarating as imparting the gifts of literacy, imagination, and creativity to the freshmen who take Foundations of Musical Skill with me. It opens the world for them to explore anything from Bach to the Beatles (but definitely not Bieber!). Sadly, the number of...
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