Hi friend! Over the past week, I have revamped the website to make it easier to grasp my central message. I have added 4 new tabs to the header: welcome, step 1, step 2, and step 3. The following post is a copy of the welcome tab. Please let me know if this is clear or not by leaving a comment below. Thanks!

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Welcome to The Classical Scholar! Whether you are a brand new home school parent or one who has been homeschooling for a few years, this website is sure to become one of your favorites! My family is committed to introducing you, a Christian home school parent, to an authentic classical Christian education, one that you most likely never had yourself, so that you can give your kids the classical Christian education that will equip them for a life of intelligent, enlightened service to their community in a way that glorifies the Living God.

Classical education has a long, proven history of raising cultural leaders who can think critically and communicate effectively. Even before the incarnation of Jesus, some followers of Yahweh were receiving a classical education. The letters of the apostle Paul indicate that he was very familiar with Greek and Roman religion, and his epistles, especially the letter to the Romans, are proof that he was trained in classical rhetoric!

During the Middle Ages, Emperor Charlemagne reformed the ancient classical model to make Scripture and Christian classics the centerpiece of a classical education. Protestant reformers like John Calvin were classically educated as were American founders like Thomas Jefferson. For a comprehensive survey of classical Christian education from ancient times to the contemporary home school renewal movement, read my free ebook, “The World is Waiting: A Brief History of Classical Christian Education.” You’ll be inspired to think twice about the kind of education that you want your kids to have!

Are you ready to give your children a classical Christian home education? Let’s get started…

Step 1 - Forget Everything You Know About “School”

Step 2 - Teach Three Skills Until They Are Mastered

Step 3 - Supervise the Study of Subjects

Future Plans for The Classical Scholar

We’ve got LOTS of great things planned for this growing community of classical Christian home educators! The first thing that we are doing is publishing “how to” practical instruction for parents in our blog posts (subscribe today to receive them in your email on Tuesdays and Thursdays) and in paperback books (the first to be released in Fall 2008). Secondly, we plan to create parent refresher tutorials for step 2 (teaching language, critical thinking, and written/oral communication). These parent tutorials will be available in live teleconferences that I hold as well as recorded flash videos (click on the sample tutorial, “The 7 Laws of Teaching” in the left sidebar). Finally, in the future, we plan to roll out live and recorded online classes for high school credit through The Classical Scholar Academy so that you can supervise the study of subjects in step 3. David and I are already brainstorming and planning the first of these classes (in fact, Meredith and Connor are our guinea pigs as they go through the Beta testing with us to work out the kinks). We’ll be integrating history with classic source documents like combining a class on “The History of Israel” with an “Inductive Biblical Studies” class on the Pentateuch or a class on “Ancient Greek History” with “Classic Greek Literature” like Homer’s Iliad and Herodotus’ Histories.

We’re so glad that you’ve joined us, and we hope that you’ll continue to be blessed by our efforts. We want to help you raise classical Christian scholars who obediently advance the Kingdom of God wherever they go!

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