Jump to content

Menu

PG4WOODS

Members
  • Posts

    14
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by PG4WOODS

  1. par. 7 "Elite institutions are supposed to provide a humanistic education, but the first principle of humanism is Terence’s: "nothing human is alien to me." The first disadvantage of an elite education is how very much of the human it alienates you from."

     

    This is his problem,"humanism"

     

    Define:

    4.

    Philosophy. a variety of ethical theory and practice that emphasizes reason, scientific inquiry, and human fulfillment in the natural world and often rejects the importance of belief in God.

     

    http://www.dictionary.reference.com/search?q=humanism&r

     

    *is the name given to the intellectual, literary, and scientific movement of the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, a movement which aimed at basing every branch of learning on the literature and culture of classical antiquity.

    Believing that a classical training alone could form a perfect man, the Humanists so called themselves in opposition to the Scholastics, and adopted the term humaniora (the humanities) as signifying the scholarship of the ancients.

     

    *http://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id also, for more history of humanism movement

     

     

    Key word: "alone " a great education without God.

     

    The very reason I am homeschooling. The last thing my Father said before his death "You have to know what you believe in......." Thank You, Daddy.

    On this Forum you have two types of Classical education; Humanism and Christian Classical.

    Humanities; in , in itself is a grave mistake. This is not my opinion....." it is."

     

    For those of you who , for the lack of a better word, "feel",(mothers intuition) something is missing though you are doing everything ....well.... I know through my very own experience.

     

     

     

    The Four Science:

     

    The Natural Sciences

    The Humane Sciences

    The Philosophical Sciences

    The Theological Sciences

     

    link: http://www.circeinstitute.org/definitions%202.shtml

    Great Read: http://www.circeinstitute.org/d_principles.shtml

  2. Chix Wings (you may want to order these from a local restaurant see if they will give a discount about 3 pans)

     

    Cold Sub- Sandwiches

    Cold Salads:You can make it ahead of time:)

    Pasta Salad(a must)

    Potato Salad

    Fruit Salad

    etc.

     

    Baked Beans 3 Large cans with Brown Sugar and BBq sauce

     

    Punch

     

    If you find a good deal on Spiral Ham ...? ...

  3. My son and I were up on the computer. Our Jardine parrot was flapping aggressively around in it's cage about 15 seconds I commented, "Whats wrong with the bird?" Then, we heard and felt the earthquake.

    I was baffled at first thought someone must of walked into the house because the blinds were swaying yet it sound like wind before a tornado but very sudden. Of course my son , hit it on the nail and said it must be a tremor.

     

    Paula

  4. TT ALGebraI

    Lightning Lit 7

    Apologia General Science

    Latina Christiana I

    CW Aesop B/ Elementary Diagramming

    Traditional Logic I :Possibly need to look over content

    Our Pioneers and Patriots/Sudden interest in American History

    Catechism/ Bible

    God and The History of Art

    Boy Scouts Requirements

     

    Informally/Orally Discuss

     

    Famous men of Rome

    Famous Men of Greece

×
×
  • Create New...