SCHOLA: Going through some old links...

Wednesday, March 03, 2004

Going through some old links...

The Powers of Ten

Night view of Earth from space

You may have seem them before, but I thought they were pretty cool.

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We spent the day with our old homeschool group for their monthly park meeting. The girls jumped right into the mix and reacquainted themselves with old friends. L (3.5) made a new friend. Carson, an 8 y.o. (but tiny) boy, came up to me, introduced himself and asked if I had a pencil so that he and L could exchange phone numbers. The little guy was so serious, it took all I had not to laugh!

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SCHOLA 101

schol' a: 1) An intermission of work, leisure for learning, learned conversation, debate, disputation, lecture, dissertation. 2) A meeting place for teachers and pupils, place for instruction, place of learning, school. 3) The disciples of a teacher, body of followers, school, sect. 4) An acronym for my tortuous blog title "Secular Classical Homeschoolers' Odyssean Learning Adventure." 5) How my Boston cousins pronounce "scholar." 6) Someone who studies at 10 o'clock for a dilla or a dolla.

These are the blatherings of an introverted, autodidactic, champion of The Enlightenment raising three daughters. At one time or another we have homeschooled, public-schooled, Catholic-schooled, cyber-schooled, unschooled, and even threatened boarding school. We have been inspired variously by The Well-Trained Mind, A Thomas Jefferson Education, and Climbing Parnassus, tempered by the writings and wisdom of Charlotte Mason, John Holt, Benjamin Franklin and Michel de Montaigne.

I try not to get wrapped up in labels, but we are secular and we are classical-ish.

We travel. A lot. Sometimes to the other side of the state and sometimes to the other side of the planet. Join us on our journey as we search for our home, navigate the waters of self-education, lounge with the lotus-eaters, and bash a Cyclops or two.