What Does Classical Education Get You? Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric, Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, Astronomy. Plato, Charlotte Mason, Dorothy Sayers, Doug Wilson. Classical education is a lot of things. It has morphed and changed over the years, rising and falling through history. Each iteration adds another layer to it, putting more flesh onto the bones of the …
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A Student Can’t Be Above Their Teacher
A few days ago, I was reading through Matthew 10, and I came to verse 24, paraphrasing it would be that a servant cannot be above their master. Great principle. In context, this is telling the disciples that they should be ready to be mocked, scorned, and disgraced because that is what the leaders were …
The Chicken is More Than the Egg
Earlier this year, we got some chickens. We had talked about getting them but hadn’t super planned about when. I thought later in the year. But suddenly, Becca found them at the Co-Op. The kids got excited. I saw dollar signs. I often think about what kind of life I want my kids to grow …
A Slowburn that Changed Your World
A little old man hobbles out of his house in a tizzy. His mailbox had just been knocked over by a child. The child, a thirty-something-year-old construction worker was just doing what he was told. “What’s the big idea?” screamed the senior in delirium. The young man just stood there, not sure how to respond …
Dust in the Eyes is Good for the Soul
Over the last few years of being a teacher, I have asked a lot of students to read mountains of pages that most Americans would see as a breaking of the Eighth Amendment. Some have balked at my requests. Some have silently refused them. Some have been brave enough to protest my requirements. While some …
New Year, Same Deficiencies
My wife commented yesterday that she needs to buy a new calendar to hang on our wall because she likes to see life and our events a month at a time. The kids had no idea why. Why would it end yesterday with nothing for today. Our talking kids are 7, 5, and 3 so …
The Prophecy and Warning of Captain Ahab
When I read a fiction book, I either want to enjoy the writing style of the author, be interested by the story being told, or I want to get encouragement to go out and do something more with my life. I like to learn and escape into another world for a bit as long it …
What is “Classical” about Classical Education?
I’m not entirely sure why, but I really prefer to know where ideas come from, like who influenced what. Like how did it become mainstream for people to think they could decide their own reality and if they were a man, a woman, or a cat? Even 50 years ago, if someone had said that …
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How to be Ready and Useful
Guerrilla Education: Teaching From the Trenches (Part 7) There is something unique about dealing with your own children. Having multiple children gives one a larger variety of you and your spouse’s character traits. For example, my son is very much like my wife but in my brother-in-law’s body, while my daughter is built like me …
How to Drive to Syracuse
Guerrilla Education: Teaching From the Trenches (Part 5&6) There aren’t many times that I enjoy a whole book. I can normally find a chapter or two that I think aren’t needed. I can find reasoning in sections that isn’t logical. The writing can also break down somewhere. There are plenty of reasons to critique books. …