SCHOLA: The Glass Is...

Friday, March 11, 2005

The Glass Is...

Okay, continuing this from Sarah's blog:

Husband G: Only half full -- honey, can you bring Daddy another Budweiser?

Me: It's half empty, but more importantly, who's been drinking out of it and what are those little floaty things in there?

S: Half full! Right, Mom? I mean, it could be half empty too, if that's what you're thinking... No, I'll stick with half full, sorry!

G: It's right in the middle and nobody's refilling it. It's that middle glass syndrome. HEY! SOMEBODY GIVE ME SOME MORE WATER!

L: It's only half full, but I will fill it up all by myself. Mom, I need a paper towel...

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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.