It’s testing season! In the thoughtful article below, Kate Deddens discusses the spiritual reasons to practice standardized testing with your kids. ____________________________ Are our children eternal souls, created imago Dei? Or, are our children “end-products,” the consequences of “schooling” which must be evaluated by standardized testing? This is one of...
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The Peacemaker Monthly Mending by Cara McLauchlan “Speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ.” — Ephesians 4:15 The summer before I went to high school, I made quilts for fire victims. Despite having only sewn...
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Classical Conversations staff members are avid readers. We thought you might enjoy a peek at our personal reading this month. Matt Bianco – Education Director I am currently reading C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man and Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities. The Abolition of Man is an incredible book on the...
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What do you believe about children and learning? In any learning environment we consider—public, private, or home school— some children seem to enjoy learning while others seem to be bored or frustrated by it. Parents and teachers will go to great lengths to make learning fun, enticing children to...
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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 26, 2012 When visitors enter the tasting room of the small Yadkin Valley winery where I have worked for the past three years, it is...
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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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