SCHOLA: Diversions

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Diversions

Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience is just fascinating and one more reason to keep me online way past the hour decent people should be in bed. For starters:

Al Franken zoos on John Ashcroft

Einstein on religion

Bobby Kennedy gets an earful on obscene lyrics

Happy reading!

2 comments:

Smrt Mama said...: Great links, especially the Einstein one. Theories about Einstein's spiritual beliefs seem to be endlessly thrown about on the WTM forums, but people like to forget this little document.; October 30, 2009 at 2:01 PM
Carole said...: I love when you post things that make me have to think and make the conservatives twitch. Re: Einstein; December 20, 2009 at 6:41 PM

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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.