Wean Yourself Off of Social Media

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If we were to travel back into medieval Europe, we would find society divided sharply between the learned and the common people.  The learned communicated privately through writings and, sometimes, languages that the common people couldn’t access.  Such an arrangement observed Wisdom’s teaching: “Do not cast your pearls before swine.” (Matthew 7:6) Today, this separation is not as clear as it was then–but it needs to be made so. Social media is a natural product of democracy, the inevitable result when the freedom of speech meets the internet, though it wasn’t meant to be so.  Originally, the internet was designed … Continue

The Homeschool Schedule is the Key to Homeschool Records

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Many homeschool families try to keep track of daily lessons and activities after they complete them.  The daily homeschool schedule may be inconsistent or chaotic, but Mom tracks what the children completed when they do study.  The idea is that we can have chaos so long as we track completion. This doesn’t work. No Homeschool Schedule, No Records The same problems that cause the homeschool schedule to be inconsistent also prevent records from being kept in any helpful way.  It sounds like a good plan, but it doesn’t work. Good Homeschool Schedule, Good Records Homeschool families need to understand that a … Continue

Gospel of St. John 1:41-45 (Greek)

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by Mr. William C. Michael, O.P. The lesson below belongs to the Classical Liberal Arts Academy’s Greek Reading I course. In this course, we study the Gospel of St. John in the New Testament. Students wishing to master the lesson below are to complete translation exercises daily from Greek into English and English into Greek, until every Greek word and its English meaning are memorized. Text 41 εὑρίσκει οὗτος πρῶτον τὸν ἀδελφὸν τὸν ἴδιον Σίμωνα καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ: εὑρήκαμεν τὸν Μεσσίαν, ὅ ἐστιν μεθερμηνευόμενον Χριστός. 42 ἤγαγεν αὐτὸν πρὸς τὸν Ἰησοῦν. ἐμβλέψας αὐτῷ ὁ Ἰησοῦς εἶπεν: σὺ εἶ Σίμων ὁ υἱὸς Ἰωάννου, σὺ … Continue

Intro to Classical Arithmetic, Lesson 13. Axioms IV

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To complete this lesson, complete the following tasks: Review your previous exams in Arithmetic as needed. Study your Lesson. Complete your Memory Work. Complete your Exercises. Complete the Lesson Examination. 1. Lesson In this lesson, we will learn axioms in Arithmetic that apply to the four rules of invention: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division. Remember that we are learning these for use LATER, so it is important simply to understand their language by reading through them carefully and memorizing them exactly. These are the tools with which we will solve problems later–we want as many tools in out toolbox as … Continue