Last year, I accompanied my Classical Conversations Challenge II students and their parents to the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville, Tennessee to hear the Nashville Symphony. The symphony orchestra performed three pieces by Mozart, one of which was his Piano Concerto 21, featuring Benedetto Lupo on the piano. It...
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Imagine I gently place a piece of colored glass in your hand. You could study its color, texture, size, and shape. Now, imagine I place more pieces in your hand until your hand is full. After studying each piece, you may decide you like some pieces better than others,...
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Revisiting Some Archived Articles that Have Not Been Lost, but May Have Been Forgotten and Are Worth a Fresh Read Original Post Date: July 20, 2011 Can you teach science? Yes you can! In the modern age, it is not only professional scientists who must engage scientific ideas....
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“A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.” — Louis Nizer1 As much fun as some of...
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“The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.” —Albert Einstein Education is much more than teaching specific content needed to pass the right tests in...
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If the public school system’s education of the special needs student is a never stopping, never diverting conveyer belt leading children from one stop to another with little and sometimes no regard to their individual learning needs, then Classical Conversations is an elegant sailboat. The sailboat is a beautiful...
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Revisiting Some Archived Articles that Have Not Been Lost, but May Have Been Forgotten and Are Worth a Fresh Read Original Post Date: March 5, 2012 Smooth ebony fin Rising over rolling waves Dipping down to depths This week, while on a business trip with my husband to Laguna...
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What am I going to neglect and what am I going to pursue? My last article left us with this probing question as we pondered Leigh Bortins’s words… …And I see frustrated parents who have over-estimated their high school child’s elementary education, realize they have not prepared their child adequately...
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Back in the “glory days,” when I was flying fast, pointy jets, there was a maxim among pilots that was frequently articulated: “The faster you go, the faster you go faster.” This unusual axiom referred to the fact that getting from 100 knots to 200 knots took much longer...
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If someone were to ask me, “What is the most important thing you would share with a parent who is considering home educating their special needs child?”, my answer would be summed up in one Scripture verse: To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose...
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Revisiting Some Archived Articles that Have Not Been Lost, but May Have Been Forgotten and Are Worth a Fresh Read Original Post Date: July 8, 2011 The Challenge programs are appropriately named: they are a challenge. They provide many opportunities for students to do great things, push themselves further...
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The Peacemaker Monthly Confessions of a Middle School Cheater by Cara McLauchlan “He who conceals his sin, does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.” – The Peacemaker, page 117 Remember the expression “cheaters never win.” Well, sometimes they do. I am ashamed to say I...
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