Catholic Homeschooling
When done right, homeschooling can provide your children with the best possible education possible today. We recommend following these ten steps to get started in homeschooling:
- Know what it means to homeschool.
- Learn your state requirements for home-schooling.
- Register your homeschool in your state.
- Set goals for your homeschool.
- Identify some experienced advisors to help.
- Lay out objectives to achieve your homeschool goals.
- Establish a regular homeschool schedule.
- Purchase study materials that serve your homeschool objectives.
- Determine how you will maintain student records.
- Execute your homeschool plan.
Monteverdi and Goals in Catholic Homeschooling
The selection above is a musical setting by Claudio Monteverdi for evening prayers (vespers) on the eve of Marian feast days. Monteverdi lived from 1567 to 1643, and composed this work 1610 and dedicated it to Pope Paul V. Monteverdi is important for us as we consider the restoration of … Read more
TAN Academy vs. the Classical Liberal Arts Academy (2022)
TAN Academy Background TAN Academy is a new homeschool program operated by the owners of the Catholic book publishing company TAN Books. The program is investing heavily in online paid advertising, and claiming (oddly) to be the “premier Catholic homeschool program”, which is certainly not true (see below). There is, … Read more
Christian Education Should Focus on Philosophy, not Religion
This morning, on the way to Mass, my wife and I had a discussion about our children’s education and experience in education in general. We talked about a topic that I think would be good to share, which I’d like to talk about in in this talk today. And the … Read more
Mother of Divine Grace vs. the Classical Liberal Arts Academy
Mother of Divine Grace School claims to offer Catholic students a “classical” education, but when examined, it offers none of the subjects that were studied and taught by saints and wise men of the past. On the other hand, the Classical Liberal Arts Academy provides for them all. There is … Read more
How Laura Berquist Misled Thousands of Catholic Families
Back in the early 1990s, Protestants started and spread a false “classical education” movement. I’m not saying it’s false because Protestants started it, but because it is objectively false. A document was produced by the Protestant group named “The Ambrose Group”, titled “The Essential Guide for Parents”. This document made … Read more
Which is the Best Catholic Homeschool Curriculum? (2022)
There are many sources of Catholic homeschool materials, but there is only one program that is actually a (1) Catholic, (2) homeschool, (3) curriculum. That’s the Classical Liberal Arts Academy, which makes real classical Catholic education available to homeschool students of all ages, around the world. We teach the same … Read more
