Classical Homeschooler ᚨ

@butlerpartyof9 @HannahWardEdu We say it with a long "ah" sound here a bit like "aren't" so I'm puzzled by all the 🐜 🐜. Fault and vault also rhyme with volt and bolt for me, not the other "aw" words listed here 😅

Oh, nooooo! I have a bone to pick, @HannahWardEdu!!!! 🤣🤣🤣 Who knows which word?!?!?

@Lydora @RazorFist In reality Carrie was born WHILE they were on the prairie in Kansas then they all moved back to the little house in Wisconsin briefly. The two older girls were very young in LHOTP and older in the LHITBW with a new baby sister. Book merges memories from both periods I think.

@RazorFist To be fair, I believe this series is set during the "Little House in the Big Woods" book, before Carrie was born. But, yeah... it's still going to be woke trash.

Apparently they aborted the youngest daughter.

A green man rides into King Arthur’s court. Green skin, green clothes, green horse. He offers a game: any knight may swing his axe if he’ll accept a return blow in a year. Gawain takes the deal. The head comes off… then the body picks it up and rides away. That's the opening of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," written in the 14th century by a poet whose name we’ve lost. The poem survives in a single manuscript that nearly burned in the Cotton Library fire of 1731. Like Beowulf, we nearly lost it entirely. One of the joys of the poem is how it plays with language. For example, when characters are at court, the language turns French: "plesaunce" 'pleasure,' "prys" 'excellence,' "ioye" 'joy.' In some of these lines, every content word is French, with English supplying only the grammatical glue. But when Gawain rides out through frozen wilderness, the poet switches to a Norse-inflected English: - "felle" 'mountain' comes from Old Norse "fell/fjall" - "dryʒe" 'patient' comes from Old Norse "drjúgr" Here's what that wilderness ride looks like in the original: Sumwhyle wyth wormez he werrez and with wolves als, Sumwhile wyth wodwos þat woned in þe knarrez, Boþe wyth bullez and berez, and borez oþerquyle, And etaynez þat hym anelede of þe heʒe felle.

@HannahWardEdu I ALMOST bought this but $10 USD turned into $62.86 NZD once shipping to the South Pacific was added 😭

In which I once again rant about James Herriot, this time in blog post format. Also includes a link to THE treasury. It's 60% off right now and you need it, you really do.

@wylfcen I always assumed it came from teats, didn't realise it was older 🍼

@HannahWardEdu Hah I literally just made a Very Hungry Caterpillar birthday cake for my 2 yr old today. She would love this!

Amazing things are happening!!! (Also, do you know how excited I would be if I met THE very hungry caterpillar oh my goodness lol)

If you have ever wondered why politicians in this country speak in this artificial sort of stilted casualese of unnaturally forced “pavlova twee Kiwiana cringe”—they’re trained to do that like dogs:

@CrimsonEsquire @WIRED My local libraries (inc. school libraries) have actually all been dumping reference books published before 2023, claiming they're out of date now... I've been buying them all for next to nothing at the nearby op shop though at least.

@WIRED You know who doesn't pull this kind of crap? Your local library! Support your libraries and make use of them. Books never have their support pulled.

In an email to customers, Amazon announced that it would be ending service for Kindle devices older than the 2012 edition. Those devices will lose access to the Kindle Store. wired.com/story/amazon-p…

@Le_Master @fde_enthusiast7 @cmatthew_24 @OldHollowTree Well that's why we're starting with the trivium. My degree was basically just what you describe and left me feeling short changed, so I'm attempting to do better for my kids. I don't know any other homeschoolers IRL aiming for anything remotely resembling a classical education.

I think usually what people in the CE movement accuse as purism is really bare minimum unfortunately. For the most part they just want to do something that feels different from progressive education: read some classical literature, do a semester or two of Latin perhaps, do some workbooks, and call it classical.

What will happen to American public education in the long term? Right now it seems we offer ever-expanding services while parents reckon with higher taxes and students suffer poorer outcomes. The solution often is consolidation but at what point does the system just implode?

@Le_Master @fde_enthusiast7 @cmatthew_24 @OldHollowTree The original comment loosely defined classical education as appreciating what is good, true, and beautiful. We are all just debating the finer points that essentially boil down to "it is a bit more involved than that". I don't claim to be a purist - My BA is EngLit/ClassStud 🤷🏼‍♀️

Yes in theory the ascension through the quadrivium happens after the trivium. But in the Medieval Latin west it wasn’t uncommon for arithmetic and geometry to be taught before or alongside rhetoric. In the Greek east rhetoric was usually studied before dialectic, coming right off grammar. As for ‘Climbing Parnassus,’ Simmons was heavily influenced by Richard Livingstone’s “A Defense of Classical Education” where the term is used to describe an education in the classics—which is very different. Neither have much to do with the historical classical education that was the study of the classical liberal arts ordered to higher philosophy and theology.

@Le_Master @fde_enthusiast7 @cmatthew_24 @OldHollowTree Historically, medieval liberal arts education did teach the trivium in that foundational order as the "arts of the word" before advancing to the quadrivium. I am not familiar with Sayers or Wilson but Climbing Parnassus by Tracy Lee Simmons is a brilliant read.

Yeah that’s what I especially take issue with. The trivium as a method is something modern proposed by Sayers and pushed by Doug Wilson. Really has nothing to do with classical education, but the equivocation with the actual trivium has resulted in confusing it what the real thing.

@Le_Master @fde_enthusiast7 @cmatthew_24 @OldHollowTree Fair, but I wasn't going to explain the full quadrivium in a character limited reply - my homeschooling exemption application and curriculum overview was 55000 words long 😅

@fde_enthusiast7 @Silcooks @cmatthew_24 @OldHollowTree I’m going to push back here. The trivium is only three of the arts. The focus and singling out of it is modern and ahistorical.

@fde_enthusiast7 @cmatthew_24 @OldHollowTree Yes! A rigourous classical education is decidedly un-fluffy. I wouldn't even say we are truly classical. We do work a LOT on rote memorisation of grammar rules, which my kids would probably argue are neither good nor beautiful.

@Silcooks @cmatthew_24 @OldHollowTree The trivium is what I was looking for. Classical education is a method, not a curriculum What many homeschool parents are really talking about when they use the term is a liberal education with an emphasis on classical books

@fde_enthusiast7 @cmatthew_24 @OldHollowTree I would say it also involves the trivium (grammar, logic, rhetoric training) with heavy emphasis on oral narration, plus translating Latin & Greek in the later stages. This deepens our appreciation of the good, true & beautiful and helps complete a classical education.

@cmatthew_24 @OldHollowTree And that’s not what classical education is, it has a narrow definition. Which is why i find it odd that the term is used so loosely

@oliveegger Seeing pics of a pretty woman visibly excited over something makes porn-saturated male brains go ding and stop working. They literally can't tell the difference between a thirst trap (which is definitely a thing) and a normal woman snapping a pic anymore (also a thing).

I truly don’t get what is so wrong with taking a selfie in front of something, like don’t you want your kids and grandchildren to get to have visuals to the stories you tell them??? Don’t you want them to know what you looked like? Do you have no regard for nostalgia?

@JShopFerrari @BasilTheGreat

@Silcooks @BasilTheGreat Wow, one photo of a man doing something millions of girls do everyday. Crazy

Even Female NASA astronauts do the meme

“Midsummer Night's Dream” by Seb McKinnon

@DLTyrus @uncle_deluge I'm critiquing the clumsy writing style, not claiming I literally can't infer the meaning despite it. Jumping straight to an ad hominem attack on my reading comprehension isn't an argument, it's a classic logical fallacy. The prose is still bad whether or not I'm retarded 🤷🏼‍♀️

@Silcooks @uncle_deluge You genuinely have to be retarded if you read this and say "is there air or not?"

This writing pisses me off

@RadestShiba @uncle_deluge 😂 fair enough

@Silcooks @uncle_deluge i havent seen the film or read the book bro i got no stake in this