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 …
Category Archives: Philosophy/Ethics
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 …
Let’s Leave it to the States?
Why Abortion is Not a State’s Issue Debate is a skill that has been lost in America in recent generations. I like to think that in order to keep the peace and to be able to have the family over for Thanksgiving, fathers and uncles stopped arguing and decided to live by agreeing to disagree …
How to Make an Impact
I was reading Matthew 9 the other day and had an interesting thought. In verses 1-8, Jesus tells the paralytic that his sins are forgiven. The scribes don’t like this and call it blaspheming. Jesus looked at them and told them that He said this so that they would believe that He had authority and …
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 …
Generational Habits for Dangerous People
In the beginning, God spoke the world into existence through the Logos. I enjoy imagining it like Lewis did in The Magician’s Nephew and having Aslan sing Narnia into being. The world was not singular. It was dynamic and growing. It was expansive. It was way bigger than Adam could ever fathom. This did not stop God …
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 …