We have printed new advertising items for conferences throughout America for this Spring and Summer. Click below to see the new Great Books ad.
Great Books Academy Ad 2010
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Our free online magazine, Classical Homeschooling has recently been updated to make viewing the articles easier to find and read. Many members of the Great Books Academy have submitted articles to this magazine over the course of the past ten years. To visit the site, please click here.
Below are some of the distinguished contributors to [...]
If you’re still in the GB program right now, cherish this time! I really believe that you will never have another class quite as good as this one. Even though I have some very excellent teachers at …..college (which everyone should come to, by the way lol)… none of them will be able to compare to [...]
The Great Books?
Daniel J. Flynn
From every page of A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books, author Alex Beam whispers: put down the Aristotle and pick up the remote. Stop reading that Dostoevsky text and start responding 2 a txt. There is a Dog the Bounty Hunter [...]
I live in Alaska, the 49th state in the winter. I stay with my cool grandpa in a small village called the Nikiski. Alaska is the most northern state in the United States and the weather can be very cold in the winter.
My favorite spot in Alaska is my Grandpa’s log cabin in the [...]
Our students have requested T-shirts for a several years. One of our students posted pictures of a T-shirt she designed on her Facebook wall. We are sharing the pictures here in hopes that other students will send us their ideas/thoughts for T-shirts. Please email us your ideas for a Great Books T-shirt to: GBAmailbox@aol.com We welcome your ideas!
By MICHAEL JANOFSKY
A large majority of high school students say their class work is not very difficult, and almost two-thirds say they would work harder if courses were more demanding or interesting, according to an online nationwide survey of teenagers conducted by the National Governors Association.
The survey, being released on Saturday by the association, [...]
Tami Kozinski, M.A. – Tami earned a certification in high-school and elementary teaching, has a Masters degree in the Liberal Arts from St. John’s College Graduate Institute, and is an published essayist and practicing artist.
“I am really enjoying the teaching [the online Great Books Program classes]; it is continually fascinating to have students from far [...]
AN OPPORTUNITY FOR GENUINE EDUCATIONAL REFORM: by Curtis L. Hancock, Ph.D.
Homeschooling
In his tragicomic essay, “The Great Liberal Death-Wish,” Malcolm Muggeridge, recounts the following experience:
On radio and television panels, on which I have spent more time than I care to remember, to questions such as: What does the panel think should be done about the rising [...]
