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Feb 13, 2014

Trivial or Essential, Classical Conversations

ā€œEducation is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.ā€ –Nelson Mandela When I first came across this quote it begged me to ask, ā€œWhy?ā€ I believe that a good education is necessary. Now as a student in the Rivendell Sanctuary Honors Program in Bloomington,...

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Feb 05, 2014

The Gift of Rhetoric, or What Are We Aiming for?

Rhetoric: the art of using words effectively in speaking or writingĀ (Webster’s New World Dictionary) When we first started homeschooling, we readĀ Debra Bell’sĀ Ultimate Guide to HomeschoolingĀ and felt compelled to write down our vision for homeschooling our children. Among other things, our family vision stated that at the end of fifteen...

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Feb 04, 2014

A New Challenge in Teaching Formal Writing

Formal writing may be a dying art. Today, written communication is so easily produced that many forms of it are disposable. In previous generations, one might jot down a list for shopping and discard it when completed. However, today’s texts, tweets, emails, and posts cause the inboxes of contemporary...

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Feb 03, 2014

The Extraordinary FAQs

Chapter Three – Frequently Asked Questions The Extraordinary FAQs by Cara McLauchlan ā€œThe next time you meet someone new (any adult) don’t ask what he does for a living; instead, ask what he likes to do in his free time. You’ll either make him speechless or he won’t stop...

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Jan 31, 2014

Classical Conversations Students: God’s Secret Service Agents

I would postulate that any school teacher in the country would agree that teaching Truth is important. However, in today’s culture, ā€œTruthā€ and ā€œfactā€ have been confused. And for the past few generations, ā€œfactā€ and ā€œopinionā€ have been confused, leading to our current cultural confusion of ā€œTruthā€ and ā€œopinion.ā€...

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Jan 28, 2014

Knowing When to Cheat

I never thought I would find myself teaching my daughter to cheat. We spend our time as parents teaching wholesome lessons like kindness to siblings, respect of elders, and honesty in all things. What place could ā€œcheatingā€ have among those lesson plans? I have been contemplating this ā€œlessonā€ for...

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Jan 24, 2014

Training for Heaven

What is the purpose of education? Are we educating our children for heaven or Harvard? What is our ultimate goal? We are called to raise our children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord and that means more than just training them to perform a task or understand...

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Jan 22, 2014

My Dog, the Classical Educator

My dog is getting old. When I visited my family at Christmastime he ran up to me, unsteadily, as if somehow the back half of him was drunk, and I saw the hair in his ears had turned white. I was raised around dogs and it is always sad...

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Jan 21, 2014

After High School

I help high school students find colleges that suit them well. That is what I do and I like doing it. It is especially rewarding when I feel that I have assisted a student who is a family member or close friend of mine. I had the opportunity to...

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