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Feb 19, 2014

Cultivating Wisdom

Revisiting Some Archived Articles that Have Not Been Lost, but May Have Been Forgotten and Are Worth a Fresh Read Among the five paths to great writing is the ā€œliterary path,ā€ which shows that to become a great writer one must read great writings. However, one may be wrong...

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National Latin Exam Musings #2

It is National Latin Exam time again! This test was given in 2013 in the United States as well as in the following countries: Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Zimbabwe, and, for the first time, in Indonesia, Netherlands, Philippines, and Turkey (NLEReport2013...

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Feb 17, 2014

All Dressed Up for the Prom, but Will You Go?

Last week, a parent in my Classical Conversations group told me she enjoys Foundations, and looks forward to Challenge A and Challenge B, but she just does not know if she will go further with homeschooling after that. I told her I thought that would be like getting all...

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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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