Why is it so difficult to ask good questions? This year, I have been part of a team working on Leigh Bortins’ forthcoming book, The Question: Teaching Your Child the Essentials of Classical Education. Leigh’s book is a survival guide for homeschooling through junior high and high school. As you...
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Words are hard to use, right? I mean, I think it’s hard to write stuff and say stuff because you never know how people are going to, like, take it. There’s this one essayist, I like him, named Wendell Berry. He wrote this essay called “Standing by Words,” which...
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If you have a cell phone and alerts turned on you may periodically get messages warning of emergency weather conditions or Amber alerts asking you to assist in the recovery of a child kidnapped from their family. The system has saved countless numbers of lives. Yet, when a government...
Read the Full ArticleHave you noticed the revolution exploding around us? I am sure you have, because it is impossible to miss it—although the fact that it is tumultuous, as all revolutions are by nature, might be something we do not always consciously grasp. Make no mistake, however: a revolution is swirling, and although...
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It was twenty years ago this fall that I plunged wholeheartedly and somewhat heedlessly into Christian classical education when some comrades and I started Providence Academy in Green Bay, WI. Since then, I have been hearing repeatedly the very sensible call for a practical education. In theory, I have...
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Here at Mandala Fellowship, we are all very excited about our Europe trip. Nobody is actually ready yet, so we are all looking forward to Tuesday with some trepidation. Mrs. Bortins has been working night and day to make sure we are all set for the trip. We leave...
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I was going to write a post about how to prepare for Latin for this school year, but then I realized that you could just read my article from last year to help you prepare (Preparing for Next Year’s Latin Class). Instead of writing such a post, I...
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Another year has begun and, again, I am directing a Challenge program. I have tracked my seasons which have been positive, delightful, and always different. My current Challenge II group has already met twice and this week we completed our first biology experiment. Historically, this is the approximate time...
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Foundations parents and students will recognize what we call the “Age of Industry” from c. 1760—c. 1969.1 The Age of Industry “ushered in the factory production of goods with the development of…new technologies.”2 Among these technologies were the mechanization of production, factories, and assembly lines. Factory production of goods, besides reducing...
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I am hesitant to write a response to the recent Slate.com article, “If You Send Your Kid to Private School, You Are a Bad Person,” for a few reasons. First, it is entirely possible that the article was meant to be satirical. If this is the case, the author is...
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In Part One of this mini treatise, we began by regarding our culture’s worldview as an ocean in which we swim. Likewise, our society’s children also swim in an educational, philosophical ocean for eight hours every day. To examine the flaws in our educational system requires an examination of the philosophical...
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I received a phone call in the spring from the director of admissions at Gutenberg College. He had heard of my website—www.homeschoolcounselor.com —and he was inquiring about using the site to get the word out about Gutenberg. I had not heard of Gutenberg. As I inquired more about the...
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