Lesson 07. Of Ratio & Measure

There are five assignments for this lesson: Lesson Thus far in this course, we have begun to study the basic concepts of Arithmetic. At this point, you should be comfortable with all of your past memory work on Quantity, Multitude and Magnitude, Unity and Units, More and Fewer, Greater and Lesser, Species and Number, Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Multitudes, Integers and Fractions, Aliquot and Aliquant Parts and the first ten Axioms. That’s a lot of information! Therefore it is required that, before continuing in Lesson 07, you stop here and re-take all of your past exams for review. When you have … Continue

Classical Grammar. Lesson 08. On Pronouns, etc.

Please note that this is not, strictly speaking, a chapter on Pronouns. It also includes instruction on “words allied to the Pronoun”. 62. Pronouns cannot be so precisely defined in theory, as not to admit many words which may also be considered as adjectives. 63. All words may be considered pronouns, or at least to have a pronominal character, which are capable of being used as nouns, but carry with them a simply relational notion; or, in other words, which, instead of naming or describing an object, enable us to recognize it by some relation, of definiteness or indefiniteness, of … Continue

Why Classical Catholic Education Will NOT Advance

Since opening online in 2009, the Classical Liberal Arts Academy has hosted thousands of students, from all over the world. Yet, there is almost no improvement in Catholic education or culture to be found. The reason for this does not lie with the children, but with Catholic adults. Following the mindset of the modern secular world, Catholic adults see education and study as something children do to prepare for “real life”. By “real life”, they mean working for money. Adult Catholic men are not studying philosophy and theology but are working like their non-Catholic neighbors. This is why classical Catholic … Continue