Browsing Tag

News

Video Games, Home Education, and the US Supreme Court

How’s that for a title? Apparently, I’m feeling very ambitious today, but I blame my Monday post for getting me thinking. Isn’t that what we do around here? Think about things after other people have already thought them? Ahem. Last night, while my husband was working, I found myself pondering my ceiling. When I got bored with that, I started thinking about what I’ve heard termed the third wave of homeschool persecution. Some friends of ours came home from a conference Continue Reading…
July 1, 2011
Fired.

I try not to complain around here. I don’t think this is the proper forum for airing our personal laundry. From the very beginning, I have wanted this blog to be about ideas…with a few personal antics {compliments of my beloved children} on the side. But I’m hoping you’ll indulge me today because I’m just…so…frustrated. Exactly five-and-a-half years ago yesterday, I started this blog. I had been reading blogs for a time, and for even longer than that, I had Continue Reading…
June 30, 2011
Intellectual Snacking: The News Binder

All through Charlotte Mason’s Volume Five {Character Formation}, I’ve been noticing something. Actually, Mason points this out over and over, so it isn’t difficult to notice it at all. What is it? Well, it is the idea that the vast majority of the world’s great men who were readers {and they weren’t all readers, interestingly enough} thrived on their boyhood reading, which is often described as “snippets” thrown together by reading anything they could get their hands on, unless their Continue Reading…
May 6, 2010
Leisure: The Basis of Culture {Part 2, Chapter 1}

The reason why the philosopher can be compared to the poet is that both are concerned with wonder. -St. Thomas Aquinas Thus begins the first chapter of the second half of Leisure: The Basis of Culture, aptly titled The Philosophical Act. From scanning this portion, I’d say that the key idea throughout is going to be that the philosophical act {philosophizing?} is the ultimate act of leisure, which is why the two parts are joined together. They are one thought: Continue Reading…
November 12, 2009