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Mar 14, 2013

ā€œAmerican Cultureā€ Is an Oxymoron

I suggested to my wife that ā€œAmerican cultureā€ is an oxymoron. I was contemplating making a list of thought provoking oxymorons; ā€œmodern educationā€ and ā€œliberal enlightenmentā€ would be on the list. Deanna disagreed with my claim that there is no such thing as American culture, so I had to...

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Mar 13, 2013

What Every College Should Know about Homeschoolers

In addition to the work I perform forĀ www.homeschoolcounselor.com, I also provide consulting for college admissions departments. One of the more common questions I am asked by admissions leaders is, ā€œHow can we be more successful in matriculating homeschoolers?ā€ Pardon my cynicism, but when I hear this question, I feel...

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Mar 12, 2013

The Human/Technology Experiment

The incandescent light bulb changed our world. Society embraced the new invention. As we adapted, darkness no longer stopped the show. Now people can work and play any time, day or night. It is hard for us to imagine that the setting of the sun would significantly alter most...

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Mar 11, 2013

National Latin Exam Musings

As I sit down to write this article, my mind keeps returning to the remembrance that it is March and it is time for the National Latin Exam. I love the exam, and I love the fact that it measures my students against students from around the world (even...

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Mar 08, 2013

What Do Employers Want Our Kids to Know?

Have you ever been to Monticello? If so, were you amazed that Thomas Jefferson, our third president and founder of the University of Virginia, was his own architect? Did you know that America’s first president (under the Articles of Confederation) Peyton Randolph could write in two languages at the...

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Mar 04, 2013

Let’s Do Something Beautiful for God

I have been familiar with the name 0f Mother Teresa all my life, but I was not really inspired by her until recently, when I read Malcolm Muggeridge’s short book entitledĀ Something Beautiful for God. Mother Teresa vowed, as have the men and women who work with her ministries, to...

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Mar 01, 2013

The Novel Every Christian Should Read

ā€œWe think it our duty to notice that, outside of and, so to say, beyond his faith, the bishop had an excess of love.ā€1Ā This is Victor Hugo’s description, in his novelĀ Les MisĆ©rables, of the Bishop of Digne, a man who gave away his bishop’s palace to the local charitable...

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Feb 25, 2013

Your Presuppositions Are Showing

If you have ever readĀ Robinson Crusoe, you may remember one of his most serendipitous discoveries. Crusoe, the shipwrecked castaway, finds barley growing by his homemade shelter and realizes that he himself must have grown it, however unintentionally. He deduces that the grain has grown from what he believed to...

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