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Thomas Aquinas

Educational Philosophy
New Thoughts of God, New Hopes of Heaven

New Thoughts of God, New Hopes of Heaven. Vanoziva kuti mdhara achauya, Ahaa mdhara wacho ishumba inoruma. Ahaa unyerere uchingoshaina Ahaa unyerere uchingoshaina (Link to Original Song and the English Version) This is a song of hope. A song of new hope for our land and people. About a husband coming back from the battlefront to his wife, this song captured the hope of a people who had been heart sick from a hope deferred. I sit outside on our verandah, listening to Continue Reading…
March 5, 2018
Books & Reading, Educational Philosophy, Mother's Education
The Sun by Which We See: Our Need for Illumination

Don’t you love it when various ideas from different books you are reading hop off the pages and dance around together? I didn’t get as much reading done as I had hoped last week — my husband and youngest were out of town, and apparently he (my husband) is the organizing force in my life and so it all falls apart when he’s gone — but what I did read was so interesting. As I mentioned before, I decided to Continue Reading…
July 5, 2016
Educational Philosophy, Mother's Education
Aquinas’ Big Picture of Education: Charlotte Mason’s Great Recognition

[dropcap]I[/dropcap] told you before that What’s Love Got to Do with It? was the talk — the one that was on my heart all year long — the one I was longing to give. Well, this talk was the talk of 2014. I lived and breathed Aquinas for a number of months, and to be honest, I fell pretty in love with Summa Theologica. After steeping myself in Aquinas’ writings, as well as in this amazing artistic representation of his philosophy of education, I Continue Reading…
October 21, 2015