SCHOLA: My 2007 Reading

Friday, January 04, 2008

My 2007 Reading

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
How Children Fail
Asimov's Guide to the Bible
Middlemarch
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric
Permaculture Book of Ferment & Human Nutrition
* The Prince (Machiavelli)
How Children Learn
Learning All the Time
Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better
* Acts of the Apostles
* Gospel of Matthew
* The Confessions of St. Augustine
Teach Your Own
Age of Innocence
* Politics (Aristotle)
* Plutarch's Lives
Franklin: Writings
Benjamin Frankin's the Art of Virtue
* Ethics (Aristotle)
* The Republic (Plato)
* Lysistrata (Aristophanes)
* Clouds (Aristophanes)
* Crito (Plato)
* Apology (Plato)
The Paideia Classroom: Teaching for Understanding
Parenting the Strong-Willed Child
Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
Paideia Proposal
1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12
The Twilight of American Culture
Homesteading: How to Find New Independence on the Land
(* Great Conversation selections)

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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.