Exhortation to the Study of the Arts
The costs of modern medicine are very great–especially when it comes to education.
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Protected: CLAA Core Standards: Why This Program Matters
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Understanding Christian Education
If we don’t know where we’ve come from, we cannot understand where we are, or where we need to go.
Restoring Reason
Many Christians are exasperated by the insanity of the society we live in and suggest there was a day when men were more “reasonable”. That is only half-true. There were as many unreasonable men living in the past as there are today, but the wise men were much wiser, and those societies did not allow […]
The “Advance” of Medicine
I am a 36 year old husband and father, raising nine children in America in 2012. My family carries no “health insurance”. There is no part of our budget dedicated to medical care. We are healthy and happy. Nevertheless, we will be criticized by others for being irresponsible and even reckless for such. If I […]
Protected: College & Career: Part 1
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College & Career Planning Series
Dear readers, Beginning today, I will be posting a series on College & Career planning. This will be ridiculously controversial in a public audience in modern America, so I’m going to make it available only to private members here on the CLAANews.com site. Part 1 will begin to consider the question, “Should Our Children Go […]
CLAA Academy Diploma
Earlier this week I began my response to parents’ request for a clearer articulation of the classical liberal arts curriculum. I published the article “A Good Man” to provide us all with a model of what we are seeking to build through our instruction. Yesterday, I created a new Curriculum Overview on the CLAA website. Today, […]
New Catechism Program in 2012
Dear families, In 2012, we will be re-organizing our Catechism courses to reproduce the exact layout of the original Baltimore Catechism of 1885. We have offered Classic Catechism I and Classic Catechism II as a two-part study of what was Baltimore Catechism II. Petty Schoolers: CLAA Petty School Religion Pre-Communion: CLAA Baltimore Catechism I […]
A Good Man
by William Michael *** I am regularly asked by parents about the usefulness of a classical liberal arts education, or the relationship between our instruction and their children’s future. I have promised to answer these questions in detail this year and I begin my response with this biography of the man I aim to help […]
