Antony Barone Kolenc speaks with Katherine Briggs about why a classical education is beneficial to faith and our youth.
Innovation—The Art of Modern Homeschooling
I’ve been writing for ten years and homeschooling for twenty years, and with each new year, I discover fresh challenges. But that’s the adventure. To meet challenges head-on. Innovation is at the heart of homeschooling—and writing—so a lot of what I have to say about homeschooling applies to my writing […]
Faith Based Schooling
One day I shared with my university professor father the name of a religious text I was using in my homeschool, and my dad snorted in disgust. “Use books with real material, for God’s sake!” The I-couldn’t-shoot-through-it-with-a-laser-gun irony was not lost on me. After all, every choice I made in my homeschooling […]
Faith on the Edge of a Cliff – Thoughts of a Wyoming Catholic College Student – Episode 3
Last month in my blog series on my journey to Wyoming Catholic College, I explained the purpose and benefit of a Great Books curriculum. This month, I offer a reflection on WCC’s outdoor program—one of the school’s most distinctive and essential elements. Three years ago my family took a vacation […]
One last story about spelling tests
One baby boomer afternoon when my best friend and I were in fourth grade—she in the local public school and I in the parish Catholic school—she showed me her weekly spelling test. It had a shiny metallic-looking star and a great big 92% A written across the top. I too had scored […]
Should You Go For an MFA?
Something about cap and gown season always makes me think about going back to school. Going to graduate school can be a wonderful experience. I earned a masters degree in theology several years ago, attending school part-time while working full-time, and loved almost every minute of it. Graduate school allows […]