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Norms and Nobility: The End

Okay, so I just read the Epilogue of Norms and Nobility, making me officially done with book 2 of 3 for the summer study! I’m totally excited. If I was done painting the bunk beds, the world would be almost perfect. (Unfortunately, bunk beds take time…more than I ever, ever anticipated.) Book three is…drum roll, please…School Education by Charlotte Mason! Hooray! (Of course, I already told you that a month ago, but I’m jazzed again, so please bear with me.) I Continue Reading…
July 21, 2010
Norms and Nobility: Thoughts on Art

Out of all the various aspects of a classical education mentioned by both Miss Mason in Home Education and Mr. Hicks in Norms and Nobility, art is the one I struggle with the most. I don’t mean looking at art, mind you. I mean making art — drawing, painting, and so on and so forth. If there is one area in which I still retain a smidgen of a modern mindset, it is art. I am trying to remedy this, of course. Continue Reading…
July 20, 2010
Norms and Nobility: On Curriculum and Schools

I always love it when a book on theory turns practical at the end, giving long lists of examples and ideas for putting feet to its grand thoughts. This is precisely what occurs in Part II of Norms and Nobility. Hicks, now that he’s convinced us how right he is, shows us what could be, what might be, what ought to be, if we planned curriculum with care and excellence. I’m not going to run through and summarize all of it, Continue Reading…
July 19, 2010
Norms and Nobility: Answered in Christ

He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. Colossians 1:17 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was well-pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. For indeed Jews ask for signs and Greeks search for wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness, but to those who are the called, both Continue Reading…
July 16, 2010