In the last post of this series, Contemplating the Liberal Arts: Grammar, we discussed the liberal art of grammar and how the Ancient and Medieval educators approached it. The liberal art of grammar was such a refreshing and enlighting study for me. Through it I came to understand why ... Read More
Contemplating the Liberal Arts: Grammar
"Consider, for example, what a reader should know in order to properly interpret the Aeneid, and one will intuitively grasp the nature of grammar in its classical sense." - Clark & Jain, The Liberal Arts Tradition Let us think about that for a moment. What would be needed ... Read More
2015-2016 Course Offerings
This time of year is one of my favorite times of the year. Spring is being ushered in, homeschool conventions are underway, there are only four months left before the CiRCE Conference, and people are reflecting on the present year while casting a vision for the year to come. With that ... Read More
Pencil or Highlighting: On Helping Students to Read
I love literature. In fact, I love literature so much that I teach high school writing and literature classes. I love the opportunities that great literature provides for the student and teacher. In all of my literature classes, I require my students to use Andrew Kern’s ... Read More
Reveling in the Classics @LadyDusk
Today I am over at LadyDusk Blog writing about Reveling in the Classics. Here is an excerpt. I look forward to seeing over at LadyDusk Blog. I remember when I read my very first classic. It was the Iliad. I was in my third-year homeschooling and my third year into the ... Read More
New Month News: March
Good March friends! It has been a while! This month the Dow family moved into another house! Talk about a busy three weeks! I am so grateful to be back with you all and back into a normal schedule. Getting back to calm makes me realize how much the routine and the same things ... Read More
Contemplating the Liberal Arts {a series}
What are the liberal arts? How were they thought of in Ancient and Medieval times? Why were those seven liberal arts singled out above everything else one could learn? What is so special about them? How do we apply and encounter those arts today? What do they look like, ... Read More
Our Struggle is Not Against Flesh & Blood
Today I am over at His Mercy is New blog sharing my story about one crazy day at the Dow house and what the Lord showed me through that day about waiting on Him and who I am really at war with. Here is an excerpt. "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the ... Read More
Justification, Judging, & The Liberal Arts
What do you think of when you hear the term ‘liberal art’? Today, the liberal arts are viewed through varying lenses and presuppositions. However, from antiquity and into Medieval times there was a more particular way in which the liberal arts were ... Read More
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