I am a Christian homeschooler blending the principles of Classical Education with the methods of Charlotte Mason in an attempt to ..
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Everything Old is New Again: Thoughts on the Constitution
Published on 2012-01-30 09:56:00
A few days ago I stumbled onto a conversation about politics and world affairs. It didn’t take long before someone made the oft-repeated remark that the world is such a different place from when the Constitution was written. The Founders could not have imagined the world we live in, she argued. She stopped short of saying it outright but the implication was that since the world is a different place than the 1780s, the Constitution is irrelevant.The first problem with this attitude, of course,
The Blessings of Adversity and Learning through Failure
Published on 2012-01-12 08:24:00
As I’ve been thinking through my educational goals for 2012, I find myself reflecting on my days as an athlete. I’ve been on several teams that were undefeated in conference play, and I was always perplexed when my coach would schedule games against superior teams that were not in our conference.“But you are endangering our perfect record,” I’d complain. He always responded, “You don’t learn anything from playing teams that are weaker than you. You always learn more when you lose t
Creating Family Culture through Reading Aloud
Published on 2012-01-04 15:56:00
This is an article I wrote back in 2010 that appeared in Home Educating Family Magazine.The modern family is fragmented and disconnected. This fact is so obvious that it hardly warrants being stated out loud. Children are isolated and disconnected from their siblings and alienated from their parents. Families find themselves pulled in a hundred different directions at once. And the age-segregated peer culture further divides family members from one another. Expert
