I just saw the movie David from Angel Studios. Angel put out my favorite movie, Cabrini. I saw that about 8 times. I was confident that Angel would have good content… but animation?? Honestly, I thought it might be a little lame due to the delivery style. Not so. The animation in David gave […]
About 12 years ago as I sat planning picture study lessons, I evaluated where we were and what we had done. We had studied some of the older classic painters as we travelled along the line of history—Giotto, Van Eyck, Michelangelo, Vermeer, Bouguereau, Millet, Degas, Constable, Stuart, Copley, David, Homer… This time period is a
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Is CM the right type of education for you and your family or school? Lets briefly compare CM to other educational systems to see if CM is what you are looking for. Disclaimer:This is a Quick Glance: My SHORT notes on the differences.These are as brief as I can make them. Hopefully they give you
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I heard someone talking this week about ‘revamping’ their youth group. They had asked the other teachers/ board members, ‘What can we do to make this group applicable and meaningful? We sit and talk and talk to these kids and it just bounces off deaf ears and glazed eyes.’ Everyone agreed. I’m guessing they didn’t
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Is Charlotte Mason’s geography book written in 1881 relevant for today?1881! It’s soooooo OLD! Outdated! Surely there is a better book by now!How could a book that old possibly have any value for our modern, fast paced, at-your-finger-tips world?The answer is, this old book is absolutely relevant for today! The most obvious, no-brainer answers are
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“A Basis of Facts.—Of the teaching of Natural Philosophy, I will only remind the reader of what was said in an earlier chapter—that there is no part of a child’s education more important than that he should lay, by his own observation, a wide basis of facts towards scientific knowledge in the future. He
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