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Education

Educational Philosophy, Home Education
A Divine Curricular Appointment

Unless the Lord builds the house,those who build it labor in vain.— Psalm 127:1 I don’t know about you, but I am not a grand composer orchestrating my homeschool curriculum. I use AmblesideOnline, which means I mainly schedule a week using assignments planned by Other People. Occasionally I tinker with it. Sometimes this is because a child has already read a book. Other times, I’m combining students. But whatever I do to alter it, it’s not really my creation. I Continue Reading…
August 24, 2020
Home Education
Introducing: Swedish Drill Revisited IV – An Advanced Routine with Optional Cardio

I am thrilled to announce that the latest addition to the Swedish Drill Revisited series is available in the Afterthoughts store. This latest level of Swedish Drill Revisited is for those who have mastered the content in the first three volumes of this series and are ready for the next challenge. In Swedish Drill Revisited IV you will be introduced to thirteen new exercises in a single advanced routine that incorporates multi-planar and cross lateral movements to optimize neurological as well Continue Reading…
July 29, 2020
Educational Philosophy, Home Education
Handicrafts as Knowledge of the Universe

If you’ve read a fair amount of Charlotte Mason’s work, then you know that she uses the traditional divisions of knowledge: the knowledge of God (classically speaking this began with divine philosophy and metaphysics — the study of the five transcendentals: being, goodness, truth, beauty, and unity — and ended in theology, the highest science of all), the knowledge of man (what was once called moral philosophy), and the knowledge of the universe (natural philosophy or, in Latin, scientia naturalis). Continue Reading…
July 22, 2020
Books & Reading, Mother's Education
Mother’s Education Course: Summer 2020

I posted the Mother Culture Reading List last week. That list is meant for a more casual sort of reading. Yes, it’s organized and, yes, it’s structured by habit — but at the end of the day there is something more ordinary about it. The Mother’s Education Course list (the list below) is meant for you more serious readers. To try and undertake anything like the MEC, even for a summer, requires more discipline than habit because it’s meant for Continue Reading…
June 8, 2020