Here are 2 quotes that I think are true of the state of poetry and how we should approach it. The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had by SW Bauer pp341-342 In 1983, Ph… more →
wake up, sleeperwrote 3 months ago: Just read a post about another family doing thier dig from “Story fo the World” history … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Story of the World 1 - Ancient Times We have started using “Story of the World” by: Susa … more →
wrote 6 months ago: Lately, I’ve been performing an intensive syntopical reading of the classical model of educati … more →
wrote 7 months ago: Here are 2 quotes that I think are true of the state of poetry and how we should approach it. The We … more →
wrote 8 months ago: We just returned from two days at a conference hosted by the authors of The Well-Trained Mind, a boo … more →
wrote 10 months ago: As I wrote earlier this week, there is a powerful tendency for literature and other topics in the hu … more →
wrote 10 months ago: Waiting is hard — this is probably an understatement for many families who are adopting. We ha … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I have been somewhat distracted on my Odyssey (go figure). The Epic of Gilgamesh has been read. My n … more →
wrote 1 year ago: My background is science. It always has been. It was in my early school days at Queen Mary’s G … more →
wrote 1 year ago: We are way past schedule tonight, having had more excitement today than originally anticipated, and … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Following on the heels of my earlier comments, I came across a review of Susan Wise Bauer’s re … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Where have I been all this time? Hmm.. let me think. Planning our first “official” hom … more →
wrote 1 year ago: This post reviews Peter J. Leithart, “The New Classical Schooling” in Intercollegiate Re … more →
wrote 1 year ago: If I picked up one really outstanding idea from Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer’s bible of mo … more →