Education

Take care of “granddaddy”

Abbeville Institute founders Drs. Clyde Wilson and Don Livingston recently asked me to help out a gentleman who had contacted them regarding history curriculum suggestions for homeschoolers. We “eggheads … are limited to ‘higher education’ in our knowledge,” Wilson replied playfully, so he and Livingston passed on the request to me. Interestingly, veteran homeschoolers sometimes …

Granddaddy must-reads

“Not until we once again recognize and articulate the transcendent value of sound thinking, wide reading, and lucid writing, will our students respond to their lessons enthusiastically.”— David Hicks, classical educator A few choice reading suggestions for pursuing real history (and economics): • Educator Michael Martin discusses the problems with textbooks and suggests some quality …

Public schools are killing our kids

Yes, you heard me right, folks. Certain death isn’t guaranteed, but the progressive path on which they’re led most definitely leads to undue suffering. It’s killing our youth mentally, intellectually, spiritually, and physically, and it’s killing their futures. Yet, you have North Carolina “teachers” ditching their responsibilities last week to march in Raleigh to “demand …

Don’t get conned, y’all

So, smart moms in two homeschool social-media groups of which I’m a member are super-excited about Hillsdale College’s free “Constitution 101” course. “Hillsdale’s conservative, so it must be teaching Christian-centered history,” they say. “Hillsdale doesn’t accept grants from the federal government or participate in federal financial-aid or student-loan programs. How principled,” they opine. “Rush Limbaugh …