Classical Homeschool Curriculum
A Homeschool Community for Classical Educators
The goal of any classical scholar is to love what is good, true, and beautiful and to seek out wisdom and virtue. But how does this look in a homeschool setting? What exactly is this wisdom and virtue? Let me back up and first explain how I got here. I first found Memoria Press when I was searching for a Latin curriculum. Their award winning latin kept coming up on multiple sites, enough to make me take a second look. I kept teetering between this idea that I wanted school Read More …
By Dorothy Sayers Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957) is a leader in the neo-classical education movement. Neo meaning new–she led the way as a new resurgence of classical educators took up the banner and followed her stride. Today, many look to Sayers for a practical methodology of classical curriculum. Others sneer at the idea of taking the trivium (grammar, logic, and rhetoric) and turning it into an educational methodology. I fall somewhere in the middle. I have believe that classical education is far more than a methodology. But I also find Read More …
I put “difficult” in quotes because I don’t like to label children as “difficult.” I don’t think they are difficult in their core or in their being–I think we have just not found out what is the best way to school them and they are letting us know by being very honest! So here we are with our children, trying to give them this beautiful education, and you are experiencing kickback. Perhaps it is in the form of “wiggly willies.” A child who just can’t sit still. Or maybe it’s Read More …