I never was very good at math, particularly Algebra, but I just learned a new math formula that I understand…
The fledgling is gone again Sunday, Jun 10 2007
Family Life 12:15 pm
Once again he is off. What a beautiful setting in which to spend a week.
It wasn’t so difficult for me this time because we actually took him to the Academy for the Air Force Summer Seminar. I had a nagging feeling when he was at Annapolis that he could have been abducted at the airport! I know, I know, I have to learn to trust more! It has always been difficult to let our children travel without us, but we have never let that interfere with allowing them to go. I had a lump in my throat the whole time our daughter was in the Holy Land and Rome and that lump returned last week.
However, mercifully there is no trace of it now.
Classical Education, Part 1 Sunday, Jun 10 2007
Classical Education 1:31 am
I am reading Matthew Lickona’s Swimming With Scapulars as part of a summer reading program at Aquinas and More. I was struck by something he related about a high school experience.
Matthew relates the time he was the lone voice for life in a high school class titled “You and the Law.” He had awkwardly defended the right-to-life and the next day was called out of class because the mother of a girl in the class claimed that her daughter was intimidated by his argumentation, which was not even aimed at her. He was the bad guy and his teacher reprimanded him for speaking out and “reducing this girl to tears.”
One of the goals of a classical education is providing the tools for thinking, reasoning and discoursing. A classical education provides the material for thinking about the meaning of life and creation, and our part in it. I don’t know what kind of high school education Matthew had, but he did what we hope our children will be able to do in whatever circumstances they find themselves by speaking up. His intention was to speak for truth and even hearing the truth was offensive to others. What a crazy world we live in. Way to go Matthew!
